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Re:Big, bad Amazon by pinkyand on Monday October 27, 2014 @07:31AM (#8514868)
The article ends in a non serious fashion.So the author discovers his books outside of Amazon.Does this fact has any relevance to how people in general discover books ?

On the other hand, Amazon is Google's biggest threat in general product search(and probably discovery). So surely Amazon is even stronger in books.

And i'm sure Amazon does play with search/recommendation ranking, and publishers see the effect on sales, or else they wouldn't have bothered with this fight.

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Re:Big, bad Amazon by spydum on Monday October 27, 2014 @07:50AM (#8514933)
And just about every retailer does the same with their planograms/floor layout.
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Re:Big, bad Amazon by josefresco on Monday October 27, 2014 @08:32AM (#8515068)
Agreed. Amazon is not required to give equal promotion to every product it sells, and neither is any other retailer. Retailers will promote what sells, not what's fair.
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