Comments on: A Note Re: Amazon Links in Big Idea Pieces

By: wotwjerry

wotwjerry — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:59:55 +0000

John – Just wanted to say thanks for adding IndieBound links to your articles. It means a lot for us small independent shops to have sites as big as yours supporting it. We need it!

Thanks again,

Jerry Fieldsted, Windows on the World – Books & Art

By: madscientistnz

madscientistnz — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:11:12 +0000

Why don’t you add The Book Depository as well? I’ve only had good experiences with them and they now have a US site and are the only retailer to have free international shipping as far as I know. (Very important to someone on the other side of the world with a large book habit to feed!)

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:25:05 +0000

Thanks, Shane. I appreciate it. I think we’re all a bit punchy.

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:22:36 +0000

John,

Well… sorry for bringing it up, then. I keep tripping over the same argument from authors on twitter and blogs, and it’s wearing me out too. Probably because these are authors that I both respect and whose writing I enjoy.

I guess it just tweaked a nerve in me, and I couldn’t help it.

I’ll dig around in some earlier comments and see what I find. If what I brought has been batted around, I’m very interested in the back and forth.

I won’t belabor the topic on this thread.

By: KenS

KenS — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:37:42 +0000

That is what I wanted, links to other sellers. It would be nice if you had a page listing as many links you can find! Give us options, I would personally prefer little indie shops.

By: stevie

stevie — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:30:17 +0000

aphrael@22 said

‘Right?.

Wrong.

Scalzi keeps tripping over the bloody things in his hallway, up in the spare bedroom, in the cat baskets, even! Is nothing sacred?

Admittedly reports of a Amazon guerrilla force hiding out in the garage are, as yet, unsubstantiated but you and I know it’s only a matter of time.

So give the guy some support; stand up and be counted!

And provided you do so in a non-confrontalion manner, as required by our host here, then you can express your entirely reasonable concerns by kicking them in the balls.

Then he can get back to his writing with a clear conscience …

By: Tsauro

Tsauro — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:40:26 +0000

Just wondering what are the thoughts toward alibris.com. I have used this site for a number of years (textbooks, mostly) and have always been pleased. Ordered Zoe’s Tale thru them as well. (is Indiebound better for the author renumeration wise?, etc)

By: aphrael

aphrael — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:18:35 +0000

John Scalzi - but, but, but. The entire internet is an appropriate place for every possible argument anyone wants to have at any time, and places which are tangentially related are better than random places with no relation. Right?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:51:23 +0000

Thanks for putting up the link to IndieBound – and yes, Amazon needs to grow up.

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:45:31 +0000

Shane, popping up with a Handy Compendium Of Every Argument Already Aired in Nearly Every Other Thread On the Subject in the Last Several Days. Shane, please go wander through the some of the other threads on the subject here. You'll see your arguments tossed up and batted down. What we don't need at this point is the same argument being had for the umpteenth million time in a new comment thread. It's beginning to bore the crap out of me, it is.