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isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=4940</guid> <description><![CDATA[Like Sauron&#8217;s Ring, the notion of a single red-eyed Amazon sweeping all competing bookstores aside has long filled with me horror at the decades of darkness such domination could usher in for publishers and authors around the world, and, eventually, inevitably, readers as well. Image via Wikipedia Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;ve nothing against Amazon per se. I use the company myself on rare occasions, because it simply is so huge that almost every conceivable book can be found within its online store. I do, however, have a problem with the way in which Amazon has been allowed by the <a
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