We've come a long way since starting up AmazonClicks.com and the Awards as well as the previous relationship with Amazon in their Associates program. We have also learned a great deal about the way Amazon operate, some of which we find unpalatable.
They used to be a great company to work with and buy from but now, like many large organisations, they have lost the plot and started to attack the very people they built their business on, the authors.
They are trying to force every print on demand author to use their wholly owned printing company and they are imposing 60% profit margins on many of the publishers who supply them. This effectively squeezes them out of the market.
What Amazon seem to forget is that there are a great many authors who are also their customers and these people have family and friends who have been customers as well. So enough is enough, a boycott has been called and AmazonClicks.com supports it.
To find out more, follow this link to the Arts Council sponsored website of 'youwriteon.com'.
www.youwriteon.com/info/Publishers/amazon-boycott.aspx
There is always Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Play.com, WH Smith, The Book Depositary, etc. in fact many others who provide excellent service and free delivery of books to your door. So please tell everyone you know to support the boycott until and unless Amazon changes its ways.
Thank you
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