Comments on: Are You Willing to Boycott Amazon?

By: Amy Early

Amy Early — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:06 +0000

Please boycott amazon.com and tell all of your friends and associates to do so as well!! I ignored a strong request from a professor years ago to please NOT use Amazon to buy books, and I am not finally realizing that the convenience is not worth the compromises of supporting such a terrible, monopolistic, unethical company.

By: Mj Massey

Mj Massey — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:45:00 +0000

not to metion how they treat their employees. they hire people part time for 3mths than fire than, and do it all over again. they make it seem like you might be there forever, but than you are gone because you were two points below your rate!!! They fired one girl who was 8mths pregnant for being one point below!

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By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:06:35 +0000

thanks Graham… still pondering the best way while hoping amazon will shape up ;)

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By: Graham Strong

Graham Strong — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:00:42 +0000

Yes, different links will certainly make it more challenging. And I’m not quite sure how FrontPage works (haven’t used it since version 1.0…) but assuming that it has a basic Find/Replace function that works site-wide, just look for the root of the link (i.e. “amazon.com”) and replace it with the corresponding BN link.

If you actually cut it from your list rather than copy, you’ll never lose your place either…

~Graham

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:42:39 +0000

Graham, I actually still use frontpage… think they’ve got something similar, but each link will be different… maybe if I make a list of the new links first… in order? might work.

By: Anne Wayman

Anne Wayman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:40:48 +0000

Jenn… did you check out bn.com for that book? And borders is now trying to do online stuff… Powells.com, which is a great used bookstore in Oregon also does online stuff well.

Mostly thinking out loud.

By: Graham Strong

Graham Strong — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:22:49 +0000

Hey Anne,

Since I live in Canada, it’s Chapters/Indigo all the way here anyway…

But if you do decide to switch links, it may not be as difficult as you think. Using Dreamweaver, you can do a site-wide search for any link that says “amazon.com” (for example) and just plunk in the new link. Save the files and upload — it will take seconds for each one (assuming that the link you are adding is the same for each one…)

~Graham

By: Jenn Mercer

Jenn Mercer — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:45:04 +0000

I am certainly willing to try to boycott Amazon. I do not have affiliate links, but I will not be adding them to my site. I can certainly find other places to by Amazon’s non-book items.

However, I recently purchase a book from France that had been published within the last few months and I needed within the week. It is really hard for most booksellers to perform to that level.

What Amazon’s monopolistic behavior will do is affect the choices that I make with my own business in the future.