I am enough of a man not to argue with Larry just for argument's sake.
He makes some good points, even if it is in his usual muckraking style.

I don't understand enough of the ChessCafe deal to discuss it with any
intelligence, but I wonder why we didn't consider "outsourcing" to
Amazon, as many folks do with a link to Amazon from their webpage. Some
friends of mine who are part-time chess authors, and publish mostly
specialty books, have found that this has increased their sales
tremendously, and they also receive a commission back from Amazon as
well.

ChessCafe has great stuff, great customer service, but I only order the
odd stuff from them, as they are way too expensive. So I will ask: Why
not Amazon as a partner with a link from the USCF website? Could we do
any worse? Wouldn't it be great advertising for both USCF and Amazon?