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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
I have always been a happy customer, so I'm quite surprised. Is the bad reputation limited to the U.S.? If so, what lies behind the displeasure?
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Fear of their success.
Amazon knows exactly what they're doing and there is growing evidence that most of their competitors (except maybe Apple) don't.
The old ways are dying and those with vested interests are mightily afeared.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHa3D-musUw
On the goodreads side, the context is that the tradpub establishment has been pinning their hopes on bookstores as the indispensable path to "discovery" and now they hear Amazon may have dropped $150m on another path. And since Amazon usually knows what they're doing, they are getting that old sick feeling in the pit of the stomach.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forreste...before-amazon/