Amazon publishes ebooks designed to attack your freedom (or see the html version).
Amazon's shipping in the US is done in a sweatshop.
Amazon squeezes small publishers. If you want to order a book, order it directly from the publisher, not from Amazon.
Independent book stores urge people not to buy from Amazon.
Amazon appears to treat self-published authors pretty well, but it can unilaterally drop the price of their books. And when it does, the authors are the ones who lose.
Amazon continues to harry small publishers ; it has cut off Swindle sales for an independent book distributor in order to press for bigger discounts.
The article ends by promoting ebooks for another platform, the Shnook from Barnes and Noble. While that company is not as nasty to small publishers, its ebooks do nonetheless have DRM, so they are not acceptable.
ALEC is the right-wing lobbying group that promotes voter-suppression laws and "shoot first" laws, as well as attacks against wages and working conditions in the US.
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