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“The Devil’s Checks Never Bounce”

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • April 9, 2012
Salon takes a closer look at Amazon’s (quiet) practice of giving grants to small publishers and literary nonprofits, questioning whether Amazon is “backing book culture or buying off critics.” “At…
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Publishing Anxieties

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 31, 2012
The Authors Guild argues that the book publishing “ecosystem” is in a precarious situation, largely due to Amazon’s growing industry dominance, which they put in the context of a more…
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Amazon, Coming to a Bookstore Near You?

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 27, 2012
You know Amazon? Our tax-evading (can someone please send them “The Throwaways”?), anti-union redefining, sweat-shop aspiring overlord. Remember how they tried to enlist us all in their war on local…
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Avoiding Amazon in 2012

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • January 11, 2012
“Many people assume that if you want e-books, you’ve got to buy them from Amazon or another online retailer. They’re wrong about that. You most certainly can purchase e-books from…
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On the “Elf Slaves of Online Shipping”

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • December 20, 2011
“It’s worth considering how the hell those goods get to you, so fast, and for free, when the company you bought them from is posting profits in the millions, or…
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A Bit More on Amazon

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • December 16, 2011
This week has seen a lot of Amazon talk around the Internet. After Richard Russo’s New York Times op-ed on Amazon’s predatory practices, Farhad Manjoo responded at Slate, arguing against…
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More on Amazon’s Assholery

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • December 13, 2011
“As I see it, the problem with Amazon stems from the fact that though it started out as a bookseller, it isn’t anymore, not really. It sells everything now, and…
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Amazon Redefines Dick Move

  • Brian Spears
  • December 6, 2011
We are no fans of Amazon here at The Rumpus. When we link to books we review, we link to small publisher websites or spdbooks.org or Powell’s. We’ve written about…
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  • Features & Reviews

The Latest in Amazon Ventures

  • Sam Riley
  • September 13, 2011
Amazon is introducing a new service that presents a noncommittal book-buying option for customers. The company is considering a Netflix-like rental service for ebooks, which unfortunately, only provides more opportunity…
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On Demand Books

  • Sam Riley
  • September 7, 2011
Politics and Prose in D.C. is exemplifying the latest in indie bookstore innovation—they’re introducing the printed-on-demand book. Apparently it takes six minutes to turn over a print book, and customers…
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Inauspicious News For Our Economy

  • Sam Riley
  • August 29, 2011
The whole system of American outsourcing has rendered our industry incapable of producing the next technological innovation, which unfortunately is the key to reconstructing our economy. One example of this…
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Amazon Sales Tax Battle Roundup

  • Jill Haberkern
  • March 14, 2011
Amazon.com has been battling with states across the country over whether or not the company should collect sales taxes. The company’s practice of not collecting sales taxes in most states…
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