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• @nytimesbusiness @nytimesbusiness on x

  A lawsuit offers a glimpse into Amazon's dominance and perhaps its vulnerability. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @juokaz @juokaz on x

  “In some ways Amazon doesn't really want to be a retailer,” said Juozas Kaziukenas. “It doesn't want to do curation or offer human interaction,” two of the essential qualities of retail. Today in The New York Times - why buying books on Amazon is broken. https://www.nytimes.com/.…

• @runwithskizzers Preeti Chhibber on x

  a whole new facet of how bad amzn sucks https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @stacyfmitchell Stacy Mitchell on x

  There's a ton of brilliance in this piece. “And so the story comes full circle. Amazon's gift to readers in 1999 was to make every book available... Now the site is a maze of debris....The bad is driving out the good, but Amazon pushes ahead with the automation.” https://twitter.…

• @harrymccracken Harry McCracken on x

  Some aspects of shopping at https://amazon.com/ remain delightful. But a lot of the time it feels like a failed nation state. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @angieholan Angie Drobnic Holan on x

  The @nytimes explains why Amazon has become such a crappy bookseller. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @mattsclancy Matt Clancy on x

  Hard agree with this article. Amazon is not a classic monopolist that charges a price above marginal cost. Instead, it uses its monopoly position to underinvest in the quality of the service it provides (among other things). https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @nytimes @nytimes on x

  On Amazon, third-party sellers run wild, listing $15 books for $987. One author is asking: “Should we care as a society that a single firm controls half of our most precious cultural commodity and its automation isn't working right?” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @ddayen David Dayen on x

  The Amazon marketplace is “like a neighborhood left by the authorities to fend for itself,” says David Streitfeld. In Monopolized I called it “Digital Somalia” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @frankpasquale Frank Pasquale on x

  Amazon “doesn't want to do curation or offer human interaction, two of the essential qualities of retail. Offering tens of millions of items to hundreds of millions of customers opens up a lot of space for advertising, confusion, & duplicity.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @william_m_clark William Clark on x

  “Should we care as a society that a single firm controls half of our most precious cultural commodity and its automation isn't working right?” asked Christopher Sagers, the author of “Antitrust: Examples & Explanations.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jake_bernstein Jake Bernstein on x

  What happens in a marketplace where third-party sellers run wild. An excellent piece of journalism, balanced and critical. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @kyweise Karen Weise on x

  Great @DavidStreitfeld look at Amazon's “paradox of plenty: The more things there are to buy, the more difficult it is to find the right thing among the plethora of ads and competition, new material and secondhand, quality and garbage.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @mattzollerseitz Matt Zoller Seitz on x

  Fascinating article on how users can scam Amazon. I've noticed this myself — sometimes booksellers will list a book as “collectible” or deliberately mis-describe or mistitle what they are selling, so that they get their own page/entry. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @thenuminous1 Livia Llewellyn on x

  Come for the smack talk about Amazon's mishandling of just about every aspect of bookselling, stay for the paragraphs on how they royally fucked over Valancourt Books to the point where they actually changed their publishing strategy to avoid said fuckery. https://www.nytimes.com…