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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by cratermoon on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:59PM (#36576573)
Amazon's inshittification of everything continues. They also own AbeBooks, have their own cargo airline, Twitch, Audible, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Kindle, Ring, Whole Foods, IMDb, Zappos, Egghead, the late lamented DPReview, and a few others.

> incredibly anti-competitive.

A description of Amazon in general.

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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by CobaltFire on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:17PM (#36576842)
DPReview was bought and saved, at least. So let’s not label them late and lamented yet!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36409566

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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by jzonedotcom on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:10PM (#36576751)
In my opinion Amazon’s purchase and immediate dismantling of the vaunted Stanza was most egregious & anticompetitive. I loved that app. And then poof gone.
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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by cratermoon on Monday July 03, 2023 @05:06PM (#36578829)
That purchase would not have been allowed to go through in the pre-Reagan monopoly legal era.
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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by jurassicfoxy on Monday July 03, 2023 @04:11PM (#36578146)
Whaaat I didn't know they owned AbeBooks. I love AbeBooks. I wonder how much of a cut they take from booksellers?
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Re:Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bou... by cratermoon on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:47PM (#36589176)
I love AbeBooks, too. I started to go there as Amazon's listings got more enshittified. Rather than fixing their product, they just bought the competition.
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