I started the week with an optimistic move : after months of pondering whether or not I should, I decided to finally buy a Kindle from Amazon.

My main reason for doing this is that I’m tired (physically tired) to commute while reading an 800 pages paperback that weights like a ton. I’ve pushed back finishing Erikson’s last book for that very reason : because the book is too damn heavy and cumbersome to use when there are lots of people around me.

Now, reduce the size of the book somewhat ant lighten it to 300 grams and we’re talking!

So, I did it, I ordered the Kindle from Amazon monday evening.

Little did I know about Amazon’s last weekend actions. I discovered it tuesday morning on Sanderson’s blog. If you’re not already informed about that, suffice it to say that Amazon retaliated on publisher MacMillan’s wishes to increase pricing on eBooks by removing all MacMillan’s books from their store – paper books and eBooks!

Now, if you’re not aware of that, MacMillan is one of the biggest publishers in the US, owning many subsidiaries, including Tor. Uh, almost all the authors I’m reading are published by Tor!

So here I am, with a brand new eBook reader and nothing to put inside it, because Amazon won’t sell me the eBooks I want!

That’s me, the consumer, feeling bad and cheated by Amazon.

Then, I read some author’s blogs and all their reasonings. While I find some of them (the reasonings) to be somewhat flawed (after all, we accept iTune’s unique pricing of 0.99 per song without question, why should books be any different?), I entirely agree with them that Amazon is needlessly hurting authors by preventing readers to buy the books they want. I read that for some authors, Amazon sells half of what those authors sells. Having your income cut by half overnight because two corporations disagree over how they should split the cake is terrible for all those writers.

So now, the author in me feels twice as bad, because by buying a Kindle, I support Amazon against fellow authors.

We all wish that the situation is going to be resolved quickly, but it’s been five days since Amazon told publicly that they were going to put MacMillan’s books in their stores and still nothing…