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Old 09-22-2011, 07:48 PM   #136
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Business are business. No company wants to be your friend
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Originally Posted by Crusader View Post
This is a very interesting article with regards to Amazon and their business practices.

http://www.hellnotes.com/amazon-is-n...0KuLrg.twitter

Some interesting points are made and there are connections I didn't know about.
I'm not going to waste my time reading and article that started with such a silly title.

Business are business. No company wants to be your friend, not even the one I work for. They exist because they provide some service to you, and users invest or spend money on those services. Some people like Amazon, others do not.

In my opinion, and based on the 10 years I have as a customer with them, Amazon has a fantastic service! They changed the reading world with Kindle (yeah, regardless of who came with a similar idea before, they just knew how to integrate that with the online bookstore) and they keep providing useful services and competitive prices.

Be sure that if Amazon was not on the position it is now, another one would be. B&N, Borders, whatever.

People tend to forget that the business world is not about favors or "making friends". It's about providing a service!

If tomorrow Amazon stop giving me the good service is giving me now, or the online bookstore reduces its amount of computer books, I will look away, that's for sure.

I have a Kindle because is a good value for its price, not because "Amazon is my friend"
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