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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
ProfCrash makes a good point regarding labor practices, etc.
The thing is, corporations like Walmart and Amazon, despite a horribly misguided Supreme Court ruling, are NOT PEOPLE. They are corporations, which are soulless and amoral. The very concepts of good and evil do not apply to them, any more than they apply to a jaguar hunting a gazelle.
Amazon is currently at the top of the food chain, where B&N and Waterstone's used to be. Now Waterstone's is whining that they aren't the top predator anymore. Boo-frigging-hoo. They had their day, and now it's over.
Amazon's labor practices are abhorrent, as are Walmart's, as are FoxConn's (Apple's Chinese manufacturer). People don't care as long as they get their cheap goods. When people start caring, things will change. Until then, they won't.
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Thing is (as I pointed out earlier in the thread), Tim Waterstone isn't a Corporation, he's a person BUT he has nothing to do with Waterstones the COMPANY as he sold it many years ago... what he may feel/say is his own personal opinion and not representative of a company that he has no current connection to... and I wouldn't be quite so hasty as to right off B&M retailing yet, the internet is on the rise and has a lot going for it but still isn't the dominant way of purchasing things and there are a lot of things that people still like to physically see and handle before purchasing...
As for books themselves, apart from fiction, ebooks in many areas still have a way to go before they are the equal of actual print...