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Open Letter to Amazon.com
by Daniel Ellsberg on December 3, 2010

I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.

For the last several years, I’ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon. That’s over. I have contacted Customer Service to ask Amazon to terminate immediately my membership in Amazon Prime and my Amazon credit card and account, to delete my contact and credit information from their files and to send me no more notices.

I understand that many other regular customers feel as I do and are responding the same way. Good: the broader and more immediate the boycott, the better.I hope that these others encourage their contact lists to do likewise and to let Amazon know exactly why they’re shifting their business. I’ve asked friends today to suggest alternatives. I’ve removed all links to Amazon from my site, and I’ll be exploring service from Powell’s Books, IndieBound, Biblio and others.

So far Amazon has spared itself the further embarrassment of trying to explain its action openly. This would be a good time for Amazon insiders who know and perhaps can document the political pressures that were brought to bear—and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their bosses—to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or perhaps to a site like antiwar.com, which has now appropriately ended its book-purchasing association with Amazon and called a boycott.

If you’d like to read further analysis of your cowardice, I suggest you see this excellent article by Glenn Greenwald.

Yours (no longer),

Daniel Ellsberg








http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/open-letter-to-amazon

I've ordered from Book Depository the Xmas gifts I was going to buy on Amazon. I will stop my membership with Amazon and tell them why.

I'm there!

so just ordered it...

you really want to trust them? Ever look at the settings on a Google tool bar? 'send usage statistics back to Google' is one people NEVER uncheck so they watch everything you do. You can also PAY for Googleclicks, which is ad or linki placement on the search page.


I trust them as little as I trust Facebook. Which is ZERO

your private information will never be private to their clients.


believe what you will......


Google is a dangerous monopoly -- more than Microsoft ever was


The European Union's preliminary antitrust investigation of Google isn't the least surprising. But the timing is shockingly foreshadowing.

In December 2007, when Google announced the DoubleClick acquisition, I blogged: "The Google Monopoly Begins." I asserted that the acquisition would change everything about Google's search and advertising dominance and perceptions about the company's growing status as gatekeeper to all online information. The preliminary antitrust investigation comes as Google makes major changes to DoubleClick with hopes of boosting its display advertising business. The changes mark the final Googlefication of DoubleClick -- or the realistic, final integration of the acquisition into Google.

I don't believe in coincidence. More than two years ago, I asserted that DoubleClick marked the real beginning of the Google monopoly. The same week Google begins to flex that monopoly, the European Union starts informally investigating the information company. The European Competition Commission is taking seriously three competitor complaints, made by, according to a Google blog post: "UK price comparison site, Foundem, a French legal search engine called ejustice.fr and Microsoft's Ciao! from Bing."

For clarification, after I posted, the European Commission released statement: "The Commission has not opened a formal investigation for the time being." Right. It's preliminary, subject first to Google's response about the three complaints. In the Google blog post, Julia Holtz, senior competition counsel, asserted: "We will be providing feedback and additional information on these complaints," presumably to the European Commission. Microsoft's antitrust problems in Europe started in the late 1990s from a single complaint made by Sun Microsystems (now absorbed into Oracle).

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Google-is-a-dangerous-monopoly-more-than-Microsoft-ever-was/1266994170

You can't download to your Kindle from them.......

...and it appears they have no descriptions or reviews of the books they sell, let alone anything similar to amazon's "Look Inside" feature. That's okay if you already know the specific book you want to buy, but it sucks if you're browsing.

I'm still waiting for someone to answer my question above as to why we should be boycotting amazon in the first place.

agreeing that an action i.e. boycott has no meaning. How can you possibly arrive at such a conclusion when you know absolutely no facts?

Therefore, in post #5, I had to ask why boycottt amazon.com. For all I knew, it was because of corpiorate campaign contributions, their selling books by Ann Coulter, using unsustainable packaging, or something else. Yes, I was UNINFORMED, because you didn't say what on earth you were talking about!

But now that you kindly responded to my question in Post #5, I still am not inclined to boycott amazon.com. My main concern is that the U.S. gets the hell out of Afghanistan and Iraq as soon as possible, and all this Wikileaks BS does is stir the pot and draw things out even longer. So, yes, I'll still be shopping at amazon.com

Christmas shopping there. :)

terrible name.

It looks AWESOME! Thank you, and thank you Arikara, for the link!

K&R

Will be checking it out.

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