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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Honestly, I'd love to see Amazon die as the big kind of online shopping...
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Good luck with that.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
and instead have the market diversify out into lots of choices, because the more choices you have, the better things are.
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It's highly unlikely that the market would explode into more minor players than already exist.
Nor is Amazon quite a massive as you may think. They're probably 1/10 the size of Walmart, for example.... Not exactly an 800 lb gorilla, except in the minds of those who don't bother to examine such things.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Diversity is by far better in every way than any kind of single solution could ever dream of being. Mostly because diversity allows for greater selection as large numbers of smaller stores allow for greater specialization meaning more choices.
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Uh, I don't know if you noticed this, but one reason why Amazon ate B&N's lunch is because they were able to offer a far more diverse catalog directly to the public than any megastore or collection of independent bookstores. It was Amazon that recognized the value of the "long tail," and that was one factor in their rise and success.
So if you want diversity, you should actually
thank Amazon for recognizing that businesses can do well when offering deep catalogs of content.