{"id":1528,"date":"2010-02-01T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2010-02-01T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:05:55","slug":"im-boycotting-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/im-boycotting-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m boycotting Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears as though the dust has finally settled on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=amazon+macmillan\">Amazon\/MacMillan fight<\/a> this past weekend. I&#8217;m not even going to begin to attempt to summarize what happened. You can follow the Google search link I embedded into that first sentence, or check out some blog posts below from some authors whose opinions I greatly respect.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve learned anything from this inane battle it&#8217;s that Amazon has a ridiculous monopoly over an absurd amount of content, and I&#8217;m no longer going to contribute to the continuance of their control. I&#8217;m boycotting Amazon. Entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I understand that I&#8217;m a fairly insignificant drop in an insanely large bucket of water, and that what few purchases I made every year won&#8217;t go missing from Amazon&#8217;s books when it comes time to report financials. But I&#8217;m taking a stand. Amazon has proven that they are the Wal-Mart of online ventures (another place I refuse to shop), and this was their first real attempt at flexing their muscles in a space where they sought to exude some power over something they really had no business controlling. I can guarantee that this will not be the last time they try something like this. But it definitely <em>will<\/em> be the last time they get to wield any sort of power while holding onto money that I willingly gave them.<\/p>\n<p>And as much as I absolutely adore <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/02\/01\/all-the-many-ways-amazon-so-very-failed-the-weekend\/\">John Scalzi&#8217;s fairly heated summary of the events<\/a>, he is incorrect about at least one point. This incredibly stupid dust-up does not make me want an iPad. That thing is a ridiculous waste of good electronics. When I finally decide to enter the 21st century and pick up an unnecessarily expensive digital reading device, I&#8217;ll likely go with the <a href=\"http:\/\/barnesandnoble.com\/nook\">Barnes &amp; Noble Nook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobiasbuckell.com\/2010\/01\/31\/together-lets-break-the-amazon-monopoly-on-kindles\/\">Tobias Buckell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jaylake.livejournal.com\/2045743.html\">Jay Lake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/012156.html\">Teresa Nielsen Hayden<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2010\/01\/amazon-macmillan-an-outsiders.html\">Charlie Stross<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><strong>Share this post on:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=I'm boycotting Amazon http:\/\/wp.me\/pE7e-oE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/setebos.fathomthat.org\/nerdflood\/images\/social\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2010\/02\/01\/im-boycotting-amazon&amp;t=I'm boycotting Amazon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/setebos.fathomthat.org\/nerdflood\/images\/social\/facebook.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/save?url=http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2010\/02\/01\/im-boycotting-amazon&amp;title=I'm boycotting Amazon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/setebos.fathomthat.org\/nerdflood\/images\/social\/delicious.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears as though the dust has finally settled on the Amazon\/MacMillan fight this past weekend. 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