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Old 10-17-2011, 04:15 PM   #98
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Originally Posted by TFeldt View Post
Which I clumped together as creating the original formatting. I should probably have been more specific. Amazon doesn't actually maintain their catalogues, the authors / publishers do. The only time amazon would get directly involved is if they receive a complaint. It's all automated, they populate their database with content from the publishers' databases, or the authors enter it themselves in the case of self-publishing. Just imagine if amazon were to enter all the data for all their products, electronic and physical. There'd be more updates than their entire workforce's man-hours each day.

I'm sure there's exceptions for specific products but for 99% of the products it will be automated. Also explains why some amazon product pages look like utter horror stories and others like works of art.
Nope, I've been in this business to long to believe that. There will be system management, backup processes, software that is used to update/maintain versions etc (even if the authors/publishers are doing it -- but that's not likely to be the case because Amazon would want to manage things)

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