how do you know the issue was criticism?
it looks like an automated response.
maybe it's just to avoid some sort of conflict of interests or keeping authors at arms length (so as not to let an author say 'this is an amazon book' or something).
Uh oh, someone got a form letter from an entry level customer service person! Better blog about it!
Hey Paul, have you even thought about interviewing some local authors or publisher people about the publishing industry in the time between your last dumb fucking blog post?
Talking about the general siding with big publishers and printing pretty much any industry press release he can get his hands on, as well as snippy, meaningless shit like this. By all means, bash Amazon, but bash them for real shit, i.e. their anti-union stance, their overworking employees, that kind of thing.
What I get from Paul's posts, though, and well, yours, is just petty sniping Amazon, rooted in preference for some kitchy series of toys from a competing company, and some odd instinct to side with major publishers at all times. Which is incredibly frustrating, because major publishers are the fucking devil.
This is almost certainly because CreateSpace is in California. While they are a subsidiary, Amazon is very careful to maintain a clear separation between Amazon and CreateSpace to avoid the requirement to collect sales tax on items sold in California. For the same reason, there are very strict guidelines on where Amazon's logo can appear on the CreateSpace website and what verbiage they use to describe the relationship to Amazon, CreateSpace employees are not allowed to have @amazon.com email addresses if they work out of California, etc. It sounds shady and lawyer-y but its pretty standard for situations like this. I don't know why this merited a mention on the Stranger.
Actually, I see Amazon media relations quoted all over the place. Apparently they do reply to real journalists and legitimate, knowledgeable bloggers who don't have an ax to grind.
Please wait...
and remember to be decent to everyone all of the time.
Same rules.
Same lack of self-criticism.
it looks like an automated response.
maybe it's just to avoid some sort of conflict of interests or keeping authors at arms length (so as not to let an author say 'this is an amazon book' or something).
Hey Paul, have you even thought about interviewing some local authors or publisher people about the publishing industry in the time between your last dumb fucking blog post?
Talking about the general siding with big publishers and printing pretty much any industry press release he can get his hands on, as well as snippy, meaningless shit like this. By all means, bash Amazon, but bash them for real shit, i.e. their anti-union stance, their overworking employees, that kind of thing.
What I get from Paul's posts, though, and well, yours, is just petty sniping Amazon, rooted in preference for some kitchy series of toys from a competing company, and some odd instinct to side with major publishers at all times. Which is incredibly frustrating, because major publishers are the fucking devil.