Re: Spamming

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 12:14 AM 12/23/98 -0500, Mitch Stone wrote:
 
>The Amazon.com spam is certainly unfortunate, but B & N enforces an 
>exclusionary arrangement with their associates -- sell for them and 
>nobody else. These are tactics up with which I will not put.

Yes, Barns and No Bulls has also taken measures to limit consumer
choice and put the screws to its competitors via vertical
integration. But absent FTC action, it will be impossible to 
escape this, since other booksellers also must buy from the
distributor which B&N is acquiring. The only way around this
(unless the government steps in) is to quit buying books.

--Brett