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Originally Posted by stonetools
But the " showroom effect"shows that they are providing book buyers with an attractive shopping experience. Its just that Amazon is appropriating the benefits of it. Here is a deeper analysis, along with a suggestion for a better model:
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I don't really understand why I should care about the showroom effect. People have always shopped around, now they're just doing it with modern tools. So what? That's not a problem to be fixed, that's an economic reality and a lot of stores, not just independent bookstores need to deal with it. I can't imagine why Amazon would want to partner with physical bookstores.
Oh, and the section of your quote is quite funny as there's another thread discussing how a recent study has shown that crowdsourced reviews are actually more accurate than one's by individual "experts".
Damn those crafty consumers! Always trying to save a buck off us poor ol' business owners! There ought to be a law against comparing prices or competing on price!
This is honestly as funny as when the head of a movie studio complained about people using Twitter to tell their friends how much a movie sucked, leading to a quick drop off in sales. Frankly, I had no idea that Stonetools was such an ardent advocate of societal good and small business. It's almost as if this is all a hilariously thin smoke screen for his usual pro-publisher, anti-Amazon rants.