Re:Goodreads Is Broken
by _jal on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:10PM
(#20905087)
> The entire reading ecosystem at Amazon is stagnant
They are actively malignant at this point. They are breaking embargoes now[1], and clearly won't be satisfied until they kill traditional publishing.
I dropped Prime last year, and it was substantially easier than I thought it would be.
Since then, they've just kept doing disgusting, grotesque crap[2]. At this point, I won't buy anything from them. The whole site reminds me of that cleaning-product smell at Walmart - any time I'm exposed to it, I just want to leave.
That orangey-yellow color means a fight with an untrustworthy, grubby greedhead robot that consistently fucks up delivery and makes me deal with them some more. Who needs that?
They are actively malignant at this point. They are breaking embargoes now[1], and clearly won't be satisfied until they kill traditional publishing.
I dropped Prime last year, and it was substantially easier than I thought it would be.
Since then, they've just kept doing disgusting, grotesque crap[2]. At this point, I won't buy anything from them. The whole site reminds me of that cleaning-product smell at Walmart - any time I'm exposed to it, I just want to leave.
That orangey-yellow color means a fight with an untrustworthy, grubby greedhead robot that consistently fucks up delivery and makes me deal with them some more. Who needs that?
[1] https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/amazon-breaks-embargo-on-m...
[2] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190807/20024842742/ring-...