Why I love Amazon.com

I know that Amazon is having a slight problem with several publishers who want people to buy from their sites and won't allow Amazon to lower their prices for the Kindle edition. I side with Amazon! First of all, Kindle books are great! They are cheaper (sometimes a little and sometimes a lot) and you can use the Kindle app on just about anything. Some of their older Kindle books are even free. I understand that publishers need to make money but Amazon is so widely available and used that why would you want to use anything else, especially a site is trying to provide cheaper books for people? So many people have stopped really reading anything other than Twitter or their text messages that using Kindles and ereaders are a good thing. I have also been an Amazon fan going back years now. I can find and buy almost anything for almost always the lowest price. It's hard get the latest and greatest tech on a teacher's salary so I scour the Internet for deals. I almost always come back to Amazon. I also love the fact that I can view all my purchases going back years. In fact, if I am looking at an item, Amazon will even let me know when I purchased that item. One last reason that I stand behind Amazon is their customer service. They have always responded to my emails within a 24 hour period with a courteous and helpful response. I have seldom had any problems returning items and when I have, usually third-party vendors, Amazon has always made it right. So I am sorry publishers and authors who are being hurt by this price war but I have to stick with a proven and reliable "friend." I know, I know, competition is a good thing. But, ultimately, it is what is best for the customer that counts. As teachers, we have to encourage anything that makes people read more and cheaper Kindle books do that.