Change your AMAZON.COM bookmark

please mods? let this stay in GD? and help keep it kicked anyone.

maybe you didn't know it but DU has a link on the homepage for Amazon.

if you enter Amazon via that link, DU gets a commision for anything you buy! i know it's hard to remember, so why not take a minute and change your AMAZON.COM bookmark right now, to the special DU link.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446532231/democraticund-20

that way, even if you forget, everytime you click on your AMAZON bookmark and buy stuff you are supporting DU at the same time! it will only take a minute!

change your bookmark!

it's the easiest way in the world to support DU!

I wish we weren't linked to Amazon. Their policies are harmful to writers. Doesn't Barnes and Noble have an associate program?

But here's your :kick: anyway.

They're a distributor that specializes in progressive publishers, rare and hard-to-find books. I get the impression that they are kind of like that local rare and used bookstore that used to be in a lot of towns -- only on the web.

Plus, they're ALWAYS advertised in progressive publications.

been bad for writers?

Anyway, writers contract with publishers not retailers. So long as retailers are selling their books, there's not much they can do to hurt them.

The authors get zero dollars from used books

The more general link seems to be:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/democraticund-20

My bookmark is changed. What an easy way to support DU!

Done and here is a kick

:kick:

I just bought this on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0873649311/qid=1068859984/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-7348629-6139320?v=glance&n=507846 I wish I would have seen this post.

As an NRA-certified Basic Rifle instructor, I have to say that is an excellent book.

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BOYCOTT AMAZON.COM!

From the Organizing Committee:

Workers at Borders Books store #1 in Ann Arbor, MI will go on strike this Saturday, November 8 at 9:00 AM. We do not take this step lightly. By striking, we hope to convince Borders Management to negotiate with us in good faith so we can reach a fair contract and return to our jobs.

We are writing to ask you to continue to support us by
1) boycotting all Borders, Waldenbooks, and Amazon.com;
2) volunteering to picket with workers in front of the store;
3) joining Borders Readers United, our community support coalition (bru@riseup.net)
4) calling Borders Headquarters (734-477-1100) to tell them you support us;
5) coming to our Strike Fund Concert at the Ark in Ann Arbor on 11/10/03;
6) signing an online petition: Borders Readers -- http://www.petitiononline.com/ufcw976b/petition.html
7) forwarding this message to all your friends and colleagues!

In Solidarity and thanks,
Borders Workers Union Organizing Committee

boycotting Amazon? Amazon is just their partner for online sales.

And every sale they make online makes Borders more money.

Martin

Showing ownership in Amazon by Borders?

it's Borders that owns a part of Amazon or the other way around?

I would have thought Amazon's the bigger company.

I do know that Borders website says, Borders brought to you with Amazon.com or something to that effect.

"Borders sold the Borders On Line website to Amazon. Now we have a 'partnership' in which you can use Borders gift cards on Amazon (but only for things B sells) and Amazon might direct you to B locations. I'm not sure what the financial relationship is other than that, but it was enough for Borders On Line employees to hear that they were being laid off...on the way to work...over the radio..."

Martin

with Amazon to manage their web site.

I don't see why Amazon needs to be punished for the hiring/firing practices of a completely separate company.

We are hoping they will pressure Borders to settle with their employees and offer them a decent contract...

Amazon and Borders are only linked online. Neither company owns any part of the other one.

and that appears to be DU's position as well

DU pulls links to amazon.com

Please see this thread in the Ask the Administrators
forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=120&topic_id=7094