Changing Hands bookstore boycotts Amazon titles

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• mesateacher posted at 4:17 pm on Tue, Mar 6, 2012.

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  Go ahead, boycott Amazon. Won't make a difference. The public has spoken: they love Amazon. It's fast, saves money, saves time. They have everything. What they do isn't fair, but there's nothing you can do to stop it. Apple does the same thing. They recently signed deals with textbook companies stipulating the texts will only be available on iPads. Personally, I won't buy from either company. I value the mom and pop stores, I value competition. But the public has spoken.

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• Rich posted at 6:44 pm on Tue, Mar 6, 2012.

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  Of course the way to counter power is through censorship, not competition. As an author, you were held captive by a small group of publishers, for almost forty years now. Literature has suffered. Once that was broken, the answer has been censorship, through bookstores, distributors and even credit card processors. The art will eventually solve the problem, after hurting a great many artists. And really, the only people Changing Hands is hurting are authors.

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• DrJCA1 posted at 10:14 pm on Tue, Mar 6, 2012.

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  Good for them. I personally am fed up with the on-line everything that the lazy people in this country have flocked to. Independant stores of all kinds are what makes a great community (among other things). When this generation of fools destroys all real stores, your kids and grandkids can then have the "pleasure" of sitting in front of their computer screens to look at toys, games, cookies, and all the things that makes it fun to spend the day out window shopping with your offspring. We are well on our way to becomming a very sterile society.

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• desertan posted at 5:08 am on Wed, Mar 7, 2012.

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  Weren't the same arguments used against Walmart when it "destroyed" the small-town merchants? It's called progress and change. Deal with it!

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