Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started

Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by dboreham on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:44PM (#13950191)

> I normally just get books from a bookstore or library

Wow. Where do you live? I can't imagine being able to find 1/2 of the books I buy in any of the bookstores in San Francisco, for example.

otoh most "books" I buy these days are actually Kindle downloads, or on O'Reilly Safari.

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Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by eridius on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:49PM (#13951232)

There's plenty of other online retailers for physical books. Literally every book you can buy at Amazon you should be able to find somewhere else. And for digital books, there's other vendors there too (such as iBooks).

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Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by bjelkeman-again on Friday March 24, 2017 @06:36PM (#13952771)

I avoid Amazon. I buy my books elsewhere and nothing Amazon has that I need can't be sourced somewhere else.

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Re:Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting... by nommm-nommm on Saturday March 25, 2017 @04:45PM (#13957489)

Name a single book you can buy on Amazon and not somewhere else.

You must have not looked elsewhere, I bought a whole series of decades out of print books and didn't touch Amazon.

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