[WCUSP] Amazon's Negative Review of Carter's book

[Joyce McLean]

just do it.....it doesn't have to  be a 'we' you sign the petition or letter 
with your own name
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "yvonne simmons" <roweenayvonne at yahoo.com>
To: <wcusp at wilpf.org>; <wisewomen at wilpf.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 4:49 AM
Subject: [WCUSP] Amazon's Negative Review of Carter's book


>> This is something that we could get behind, don't
> you think? Yvonne
>
>> Subj: Amazon and Jimmy Carter.
>> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:20:45 +0000
>>
>> As you all know, the war in the Middle East is not
>> only fought on the
>> ground, but also in the Media, predominantly the US
>> media.
>>
>> PLEASE copy and paste this email and keep sending it
>> to Jeff Bezos,
>> CEO of Amazon. jeff at amazon.com . Send the letter to
>> friends you know
>> care and will do something.
>>
>> To: Jeff Bezos, CEO, Amazon.com
>>
>> As longtime Amazon customers, we are deeply
>> disturbed by your
>> treatment of Jimmy Carter's important new book,
>> Palestine: Peace Not
>> Apartheid. Under the "Editorial Reviews" heading - a
>> space normally
>> used either for the publisher's own description of a
>> book, or for
>> short, even-handed summaries from listing services
>> such as Booklist
>> and Publishers Weekly - you insist on running the
>> complete,
>> 20-paragraph, 1,636-word text of a review
>> unabashedly hostile to
>> Carter's viewpoint. You have refused to add
>> information shoppers
>> should have in evaluating this review: the fact that
>> the reviewer,
>> Jeffrey Goldberg, is a citizen of Israel as well as
>> the United States,
>> and that he volunteered to serve in the Israeli
>> Defense Forces, for
>> which he worked as a guard at
>> a prison for Palestinian detainees. And you have
>> refused to balance
>> his negative review by giving comparable space to a
>> favorable
>> assessment of the book, even though positive reviews
>> by qualified
>> experts have appeared in many reputable
>> publications.
>>
>> Because giving so much space in this location to
>> such a negative
>> review is so unusual - if not unprecedented - for
>> Amazon, because you
>> have refused requests from many customers that you
>> take a more
>> balanced approach, we can only conclude that you are
>> deliberately
>> trying to discourage shoppers from ordering the
>> former President's book.
>>
>> This is contrary to Amazon's own interests as a
>> bookseller. More
>> important, it's also contrary to the interests of
>> understanding,
>> peace, and justice for all parties to the
>> Israel/Palestine conflict.
>>
>> We are not interested in supporting a corporation
>> that uses its power
>> in the marketplace in such a biased and
>> unconstructive way on such an
>> important issue.
>>
>> Accordingly, if you do not, by Jan. 22, remove the
>> Goldberg review,
>> move it to the more appropriate "See all Editorial
>> Reviews" page, or
>> restore a semblance of balance by giving comparable
>> space and
>> prominence to a more positive evaluation of
>> Palestine: Peace Not
>> Apartheid, we the undersigned pledge to:
>>
>> 1. Stop shopping at Amazon.com;
>> 2. Completely close our accounts on your service;
>> and
>> 3. Encourage our friends, family, and associates to
>> do likewise.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> The Undersigned
>>
>> --- End forwarded message ---
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