Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/amazon-breaks-embargo-on-marga.html
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corporate self-governance
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Why not leverage people’s abundant goodwill by not being proactively hostile to them on a monotonously regular basis? It’s apparently never been tried, so perhaps it would help.
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If you got it early from Amazon, read it, return it, and buy it from an indy on Sept. 10th.
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Go to an independent book store? love to. The only ones that don’t require taking a plane ride only sell used/donated books tho. So no matter how much I’d like to boycott amazon. I’m screwed.
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Not the shadiest thing Amazon has ever done.
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I work at an independent bookstore, and people are not happy. Customers are going to be asking why Amazon has it and we don’t, and the only answer is a defensive-sounding but entirely true explanation that Amazon is a contract-breaking garbage company that considers itself above the law (worded a bit more politely, perhaps).
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Is a fixed release date really necessary?
I get that it would be unfair to some shops if a close one received their books before, but it seems like a problem that the publisher can easily solve by distributing them gradually by regions.
And, if someone somewhere got their copy before because of that, get happy for them, instead of getting pissed because they can have something you cannot have (yet).
A lot of the indies ship. Pick a city you like, find one there, order online.
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