Changes for New Albany Books Daily

We've decided to transition and consolidate our writing at one place on our regular Web site, www.destinationsbooksellers.com. New Albany Books Daily will no longer have active new posts. We'll maintain this archive of past writing, but if you want to follow us, change your bookmarks accordingly.

Thank you to readers who followed us here at Blogger, and thanks to Blogger for providing the platform.

Bookselling and Community

While amazon.com is famously cheap in its prices, it's also become infamously cheap to the community it lives in. The tacit silence over amazon's stinginess was first broken in a 2007 complaint on a Publishers Weekly blog by a rival Seattle bricks-and-mortar bookseller. When Paul Constant, books editor at the Seattle alt-weekly The Stranger, followed up on the post last year, he hit a stone wall: "[amazon.com] has refused to return repeated e-mails and calls from The Stranger about the company's seemingly nonexistent contributions to the Seattle arts scene," he wrote at the time. "Internet searches for any sign of philanthropy on behalf of the company prove fruitless."

Read Paul Collins' complete report at http://www.slate.com/id/2213037/.