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good grief

Doreen -
Shocking and appalling behavior on Amazon's part and I've been glad to hear
these stories -- as a warning.

Dan -
Did someone actually steer you wrong on worm poop? That sounds like a good
story for cocktail hour.

Martha Stoodley (Molly Day)
Muskogee OK




On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Doreen Howard <gardendiva@charter.net>
wrote:

> We all have to stay vigilant and watch out for each other.  Case in point.
> Two years ago, a fellow GWA member told me that Amazon.com<http://amazon.com/>was selling
> downloads of my articles that had appeared in Mother Earth News, Old
> Farmer's Almanac and the Saturday Evening Post!  Upon investigation, I
> found
> they were charging an incredible $7.95 per download of 14 of my
> articles!!!
>
> I sent them a cease and desist email with the firm promise of legal action
> if they didn't take down my articles.  Within minutes, they did.  And, I
> went on to collect royalties for the downloads they had already sold.  It
> wasn't much--we haggled and I could only get 5 percent.
>
> Garden Writers stick together, and I'm glad to be amongst a caring and
> honest group.
> Doreen Howard
>
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