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The MMP thing is just super annoying these days!!
They are totally loosing money off of me because I used to buy most of my books new since it was just a few months wait for the MMP. Now it takes so long I just might as well wait for the library or I tend to forget and then I will see it later and buy it used.

My pet peeve is a bookshelf with some books in a series on MMP and the other in Hardcover. Just looks wrong.

@Dawn, I watch Colbert so I know it satirical, but the point I was trying to make was that I heard authors rant about used books and not getting any royalties off the sales and it upsets me. It's not like it was stolen, someone paid for it. But I totally agree that you can't always get the tone of something written because it's far to easy to put you own spin on the words. My DH and I get into quite a few arguements over texts too because he'll see a short text and think I'm being snappy, when in reality I'm just busy and responding quickly.

Dawn wrote: "Angie wrote: "I only read about the interview, I didn't watch it. That can make a big difference in interpretation."

You know it really can. I cannot tell you how many times my SO and I have gotte..."

Dawn, in the case of text messages, I go with it being not offensive, or funny as possible or whatever makes it the least confrontational as possible. I am a sarcasm lover, it's my favorite type of communication, so I try to take everything as if I'd said it, so that I can imagine the person is going with the flow of my weird sense of humor. Of course, there are some people that are always looking for a fight, so if you send them a message saying "o saw you at the store today but couldn't get your attention from 5 aisles away, so I just wanted to let you know I loved your new 'do!", they might come back with "what do you mean you couldn't get my attention? Are you trying to say I don't pay attention to my surround ok mgs? You're a witch!" And so on and so on. I have lots of family like that. But in the case of online articles or posts, I usually assume (yeah, I had a teacher that explained what happens when you assume, so I know I shouldn't!) That it's written as a news piece rather than something with satire or humor infusing it. Especially when it comes to someone like Colbert, who I don't care for anyway. That's one of the things that males life a little more difficult in the digital age. Emotions just don't come through on a computer, tablet or phone screen like they do when you can hear he other person's voice!

Jacy wrote: "@Dawn, I watch Colbert so I know it satirical, but the point I was trying to make was that I heard authors rant about used books and not getting any royalties off the sales and it upsets me...."

Me too I think that is disrespectful!

Angie wrote: "...Emotions just don't come through on a computer, tablet or phone screen like they do when you can hear he other person's voice! "

Well said

BTW I thought this was a nicely done article

Becky wrote: "Katharine wrote: "I think Kim Harrison makes an interesting point, but as a reader, do I really care if an author is seasoned or if they have a lot of books out? Not so much. I've read amazing firs..."

15 pages of story is not worth $2.99.

I'm not keen on Amazon. Even the Prime program has so many restrictions & exceptions.
I purchased some sport team earrings this past Christmas for my Mom through Amazon, and paid about $3 or $4 s&h (almost as much as the earrings cost). When I wrote my review of the transaction and only gave it 2 stars (it took almost 3 weeks to arrive, the shipping price, a few other things). The vendor emailed me asking me to reconsider my review, I sent it back saying I can and would be glad to add to my review that the earrings arrived in a tiny envelope that I thought was a Christmas card and there was no padding at all to protect the product, and the envelope was stamped with 66 cents postage. The vendor blamed the high shipping cost on Amazon. It was like shopping through a middle man and having to pay their middle man fees on top of paying for my purchase.

That's why I don't purchase 2nd hand books through Amazon. Buy a 1c book & pay $13 postage. I had one retailer who always sent me a US$5 note, I think cause she was embarrassed to be associated with the rip-off.

I almost won't buy anything that doesn't have the free shipping with prime, because the couple things that I have bought with regular paid shipping, I've had the experiences you ladies had. Missyb, if it had been amazon's fault about the shipping, it would have come through an amazon distribution center. So if it didn't have amazon as the sender or return address, I'd go back and change the review to reflect every thing you just told us! I'd also check to see if that person or store has an eBay account and if their shipping charges are any less there.

Okay, so can someone explain this to me because I'm really confused right now...it was my understanding that Hachette was upset about the selling price of their books, but I'm thinking that really isn't the case. Here's why...I read serveral series published by Little Brown Books, which is in the Hachette Group. I've had three books in my amazon shipping cart for almost six months because a few hours after I put them in but before I could checkout the prices increased from $14 to $18.99 and have stayed that price ever since. I wasn't really paying attention to the publisher, but have refused to actually purchase them on the principle that it costs $18.99 and will take 3 to 5 weeks to ship. Today, while on Barnes and Nobel for an unrelated book search, I happened to look up the books, to see if they may have a better shipping schedule. I was completely shocked to see that not only was 1-3 day shipping for free, the books were $11.40-$12.25 a piece. Why is Barnes amd Nobel selling Hachette books at Amazon prices includong free two day shipping. If it's okay for Barnes and Nobel to offer discounts that affect Author and Publisher profits, why is it so terrible for Amazon to have similar offers? Is it just me or is there something more going on than these two parties want consumers to know?

IMO, part of it is pettiness, saying that amazon is becoming a monopoly where people have to go to them to get the better price (which for publishers, it's horrible that they don't know the definition of monopoly. It's not to all have the same price or the cheapest is considered one) but also they are claiming that amazon is dictating the prices they will sell Hatchette's books at, which is much lower than anywhere else. To show that it really is pettiness, Hatchette has been running tons of sales on B & N and other smaller online sellers, to prove they can sell just as many books somewhere else, as long as it's at or below the price that Amazon supposedly wanted to sell the books at.

Jacy wrote: "Okay, so can someone explain this to me because I'm really confused right now...it was my understanding that Hachette was upset about the selling price of their books, but I'm thinking that really ..."

That could very well have something to do with this. Especially since the shipping goes beyond their normal distribution time. It used to be Amazon had the lower prices, but since the dispute you have to shop around. Even Books-A-Million is taking advantage of the situation and recently spotlighted Hachette books.