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redroseFor those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, Making Light has a lot of links and information. Myths here. (from stardreamer.dreamwidth.org).
So, in the past year, Amazon has pulled some nonsense with the tags and searching on GBLT fiction, so that it made it harder to find. Too "adult."
And they wiped purchased copies of 1984 and Animal Farm off Kindles because of copyright violations, without explaining why to the purchasers. (See here.)
They require anyone who does Print-On-Demand (POD) to do it through their vendor: This may have changed recently, but the fact that they tried it in the first place bothers me.
And now, negotiating with Macmillan over e-book stuff, Amazon pulled their sales of Macmillan hard-copy books, so they were unavailable from Amazon, and thus from free shipping. Yes, that is a corporate temper tantrum.
Consumerism is not citizenship, but Amazon has pulled too much crap like this over the past few years for me to be comfortable making it that easy for people to buy me stuff from them.
I've pulled out my Amazon wishlist (except for a third party vendor pad refill, which they will get only a small cut of, and I am not sure where else to buy it).
So, in the past year, Amazon has pulled some nonsense with the tags and searching on GBLT fiction, so that it made it harder to find. Too "adult."
And they wiped purchased copies of 1984 and Animal Farm off Kindles because of copyright violations, without explaining why to the purchasers. (See here.)
They require anyone who does Print-On-Demand (POD) to do it through their vendor: This may have changed recently, but the fact that they tried it in the first place bothers me.
And now, negotiating with Macmillan over e-book stuff, Amazon pulled their sales of Macmillan hard-copy books, so they were unavailable from Amazon, and thus from free shipping. Yes, that is a corporate temper tantrum.
Consumerism is not citizenship, but Amazon has pulled too much crap like this over the past few years for me to be comfortable making it that easy for people to buy me stuff from them.
I've pulled out my Amazon wishlist (except for a third party vendor pad refill, which they will get only a small cut of, and I am not sure where else to buy it).
