http://www.metafilter.com/tags/amazoncom Posts tagged with 'amazoncom' at MetaFilter. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:37:08 -0800 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:37:08 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/79552/We%2Dhave%2Dbooks Weee! <a href='http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1156973/Thousands-scramble-free-books-Amazon-supplier-abandons-warehouse.html'>Book scramble!</a> (Single link Daily Mail article.) tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.79552 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:37:08 -0800 amazoncom books free serazin http://www.metafilter.com/76504/More%2Dfun%2Dwith%2DScientology Recently, everyone who pre-ordered a certain book on Amazon.co.uk <a href="http://rejecter.blogspot.com/2008/11/moment-for-grandstanding.html">received a letter</a> notifying them "This item has been removed from sale for <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/11/amazon_pulls_scientology_expose/print.html">legal reasons</a>." Amazon.com claims the book is temporarily out of stock. The book? <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1903582849/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/"><em>The Complex: An Insider Exposes the Covert World of the Church of Scientology</em></a> by John Duignan. Interestingly, on November 5th, <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/amazon/archives/153991.asp">Tom Cruise</a> attended an "all hands" meeting of Amazon.com bigwigs. <a href="http://www.tomcruisefan.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=1023&pos=0">Photos.</a> A random coincidence? What about all those one and two-star reviews that <a href="http://glosslip.com/2008/04/18/more-scientology-censoring-amazoncom-review-guidelines-disallow-critics-of-authors-or-their-intentions/">kept disappearing</a> from books like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140314446X/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/"><em>Dianetics</em></a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0884044181/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/"><em>Science of Survival</em></a>? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76504 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:52:13 -0800 amazon amazoncom censorship clams libel scientologists scientology tomcruise changeling http://www.metafilter.com/68572/Who%2Dis%2DGrady%2DHarp <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2182002/pagenum/all/">The murky demimonde of Amazon's Top Reviewers.</a> <em>I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised, but I had imagined Amazon's customer reviews as a refuge from the machinations of the publishing industry: "an intelligent and articulate conversation ... conducted by a group of disinterested, disembodied spirits..."</em> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.68572 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:11:35 -0800 amazon amazoncom bookreviews web20 farishta http://www.metafilter.com/6320/ <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000059Z4H/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">10000 pages of bestseller fun</a> tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.6320 Sat, 10 Mar 2001 19:34:54 -0800 amazoncom bestseller harrypotter rodii