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WTF Amazon

kirizal

1/30/10 01:29 pm

I'm hoping there's a reasonable explanation for Amazon's pulling of Macmillan titles.

Unfortunately, given that they have apparently pulled a similar thing before, against the same publishing conglomerate, for similar reasons, I am not at all optimistic. (ETA: Two different conglomerates, actually.  I confused Hachette (Random House) and Holtzbrinck (Macmillan).)

Possibly I should bookmark this link. I suspect I'll be using it come Monday.

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• gregvaneekhout

  1/30/10 11:30 pm (UTC)

  

  Confirmation from Macmillan CEO John Sargent here.

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• This is why I don't shop Walmart

  (Anonymous)

  1/31/10 12:06 pm (UTC)

  Only Walmart is MUCH worse. Not only do they hardball manufacturer's into lower prices (and often lower quality in order to be able to make Walmart's price), they do their best to not hire fulltime so they don't have to pay benefits... even when they get Federal funds for hiring 'disabled' personnel. (Oddly, people with felonies are considered disabled, probably because it's so hard for them to get work.)
  

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