[ NNSquad ] Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?

http://j.mp/1gmo4F6  (New Yorker)

    Bezos originally thought of calling his company Relentless.com-that
    U.R.L. still takes you to Amazon's site-before adopting the name of
    the world's largest river by volume. (If Bezos were a reader of
    classic American fiction, he might have hit upon Octopus.com.)
    Amazon's shape-shifting, engulfing quality, its tentacles extending in
    all directions, makes it unusual even in the tech industry, where
    rapid growth, not profitability, is the measure of success. Amazon is
    not just the "Everything Store," to quote the title of Brad Stone's
    rich chronicle of Bezos and his company; it's more like the
    Everything. What remains constant is ambition, and the search for new
    things to be ambitious about.

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Very long, very interesting article.

--Lauren--
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