Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Amazonfail
June 15, 2009 | Monday | 125 Comments
Since the epic flop that was Amazon’s behavior during #amazonfail, and in the weeks following, I haven’t linked to Amazon.com for sales links, using IndieBound instead. Some readers have emailed me privately to say that while they appreciate the change of linkage, their local Indie bookstore has not been friendly to them as romance readers in the least, and many shared encounters wherein their inquiries for anything mass market were met with derision and outright scorn. Nice. Others have emailed me to say that they still shop at Amazon and would welcome a link to support the hot pink palace…
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May 14, 2009 | Thursday | 41 Comments
If I didn’t already know about many of the little things Amazon has done to completely decimate any interest I had in them as a bookseller, this wouldn’t bug me too much. But since the long sequence of WTF has been revealing itself for months now, this is just one more layer in the stank that is Amazon. Way back in 2007, which was several millennia ago in blog time, we bloggers heard from Amazon that we could make our content available for Kindle users. Kindle folk would have to subscribe, and we’d get a cut of that subscription while…
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May 06, 2009 | Wednesday | 0 Comments
Over at Romancing the Blog, Malle Vallik, the Oracle of eBook is writing a series of articles about “how and why authors should embrace web 2.0:” An author’s most valuable resource is time. New media offers you a number of tools to best utilize your time for book promotion. I hear that! Vallik points out that the lit-match-on-dry-brush speed of news spreading in the online romance community is one indication of exactly HOW fast and how wide information can reach others using 2.0 networks. From good news about romance to #amazonfail and amazon rank, we are exceptionally connected, some of…
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April 13, 2009 | Monday | 31 Comments
Update MOAR THEORIES! Some douchebag on Livejournal is taking credit for the brouhaha, but I’m incredibly skeptical over his claims, because it sounds a little bit too pat and because not only “fag books” were affected (among other things—my bullshit alarm went WOOP WOOP WOOP when I read that post); somebody else tried the exploit and it doesn’t seem to work in the way the douchebag claims. And now, via Lilith Saintcrow, the Seattle Post Intelligencer blog has a statement from Amazon about how this is a “ham-fisted cataloguing error” as well as some statements about how it may have…
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