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Originally Posted by speedlever
Sorry, I can't connect the dots. How does Amazon relate to Borders?
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Borders was not flexible enough to make the needed changes in a new market.
Amazon could face the same situation in the future.
It could come out of left field. I suspect that Craigslist has had a major impact on revenue streams for newspapers and that might be the tipping point for a lot of them.
XML allows for a vastly improved search engine. Suppose a thousand or so major vendors decided that they would get rid of distributor, wholesale, and retail prices?
They modify their shipping and sell direct. Even without a portal an XML based search engine would allow you to find a green (colored) Ford in California without 124,000,000 references coming up.