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I was a loyal customer of Black Expressions. I loved that there was a place that I could go that had such a large selection of books by African American authors.

Because of this, I was saddened to learn that the website was taken over by Double Day. I decided to just suck it up and deal with it, but after browsing Double Day's website I discovered that they got rid of African American material. There was no Zane, Eric Jerome Dickey, or Carl Weber-all top African American authors.

They could have just cancelled my membership altogether when they took over instead of sending me featured selections of books that I have absolutely no interest in from authors I have never heard of. I have no clue why they chose to wipe out the availability of African American material but it is a shame.

Reason of review: Poor customer service.

Location: Hampton, Virginia

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Its a damn shame Double Day took out the African American book !

Guest

I was trying to renew my subscription with Black Expression only to learn they sold out to Double Day. If Double Day had no intentions of continuing Black Expression's books why buy? I'm sad about this and won't be buying books from Double Day.

Guest

I was a member of Black Expression Book Club also!I was sad to see all of our African American authors books go MIA ,at the same time being lead to believe that Doubleday bought the company continuing with their books.Shame on you! I did discontinue my subscription!

Guest

I have been wondering what happened to Black Expressions. I loved the vast range of African-American selections they had.

I was always able to find something. Really saddened they are no longer around.

Guest

Omg

Guest

Why get rid of ALL African American materials!!!!????.. WHAT A RACIST THING TO DO!!!!!!

Guest

I agree. I was a long time subscriber until this company took over.

I have since seeked out other companies to patronize. Double day will not receive a dime from me.

Guest

How very upset also should they took down black expression but I did find something calls Paperback book swap. You swap books back and forth and there's great Books on there.

Guest

Black authors lost money bc Black Expressions was stealing the work and not paying authors. It was like a bootleg site for books. Order books via authors' owned websites.

Guest

wow! I was member some yrs ago loved the website@ @

Guest

I found out the same thing, and it sading me to know that if it wasn't for black expression most of our black people wouldn't think about reading a book. But since the books read touched us in some way or form has been tooken away. So as I was looking for a site to purchase a good read, I ran across this site called Goodreads it has all of authors from Zane on down!

Guest

Wow I wondered what happened to them. So sad.

Guest

I feel that Double Day books is very wrong for getting rid of all the African American books. The reason I say that is when I look at Double Day books now all I see is White book writers and I feel that is racist.

Guest

I JUS CANT BELIEVE IT SO WAT THE *** WE DO NOW IM MAD AS ***

Guest

Just noticed that too!! How sad!

Guest

Being a black author, I was trying to find a way to reach out to BE. I was an a member from high school to college, but they are no more. I'm greatly saddened.

Guest

I just realized this same thing! I was a loyal BE Club member, but have not ordered in a while.

I was about to place an order for Christmas and no Black authors!!

I'm now cancelling my DD membership. Sad.

Guest
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That really sucks. I just happened across Black Expressions, but am saddened to see that it no longer exist.

So I tried a search of some of my favorite African American authors & got zero results every single time on Doubleday. That is such a shame. The only reason I would even consider joining a Doubleday Books would be if they had actual Black American authors. 2043 is getting here way to slow.

That is when the census bureau states the world will no longer have a predominantly white race. Being a biracial American, I truly can't wait to see the changes associated with this racial dynamic. Hello biracial America.

And I do not mean just white & black when I say biracial. All races.

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I know the feeling, I saw a few books I was interested in reading and just knew I was about to restart my membership... and no more Black Expressions..

Guest

I thought i was tripping but double day took over an agrican amerian book company and doesnt offer black material...umh!

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