{"id":1324,"date":"2021-10-13T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2021-10-13T19:47:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T01:47:02","slug":"goodbye-amazon-kindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/10\/goodbye-amazon-kindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Amazon Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, Amazon Kindle. As of tonight, you no longer can buy <em>How to Use Hyphens<\/em> for Amazon Kindle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"wp-editor-md-post-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/01\/11\/parler-goes-dark-following-amazon-web-services-suspension\/\">Amazon through its Amazon Web Services took down Parler in a partisan-political move<\/a>. Parler had to scramble for several weeks to get back online.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-editor-md-post-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/03\/11\/monopoly-watch-amazon-refuses-to-sell-ebooks-to-libraries\/\">Amazon will not sell ebooks to libraries<\/a>. No other major publisher does this. Amazon&#8217;s approach creates an unnecessary digital divide.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-editor-md-post-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amazon-bans-books-framing-transgenderism-as-mental-illness\">Amazon removed <em>When Harry Became Sally<\/em> from its site<\/a>. Amazon did this even though the book sold well at Amazon. And, Amazon lied about the author&#8217;s approach in the book to transgenderism.<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-editor-md-post-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/10\/13\/report-amazon-internal-documents-show-company-copied-popular-products-rigged-search-results\/\">Amazon internal documents show that the company copied popular products and rigged search results<\/a>. I cannot support these infringements on others&#8217; intellectual property.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, <em>How to Use Hyphens<\/em> is no longer sold on Amazon Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon lost my trust. Amazon no longer deserves to earn ebook-sales revenue from my readers. Once I find a replacement for Amazon as publisher of my paperbacks, I will say goodbye to Amazon paperbacks, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, Amazon Kindle. As of tonight, you no longer can buy How to Use Hyphens for Amazon Kindle. Amazon through its Amazon Web Services took down Parler in a partisan-political move. Parler had to scramble for several weeks to get back online. Amazon will not sell ebooks to libraries. No other major publisher does this.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outsiders-perspective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Goodbye, Amazon Kindle - Kirk Mahoney . com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkmahoney.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2021\/10\/goodbye-amazon-kindle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Goodbye, Amazon Kindle - Kirk Mahoney . com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Goodbye, Amazon Kindle. 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