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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
What you choose to attribute to "pervasive bias" here at MobileRead, could just as easily be attributed to a general public consensus that Amazon really isn't doing anything wrong, no? Not because we're dazzled and confused by the dangling, shiny "we love taking care of our customers" coin, but maybe because they're really not doing anything "wrong" ... or at the least "wrong-er."
Your bias affected your decision to attribute certain things to bias--when those things could just as easily be attributed to "there's really nothing to see here."
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Of course, that could be the case. Although I see a difference between MobileRead and other forums/sites/social circles I frequent, hence my observation. I don't know of any conclusive studies other than the high customer satisfaction Amazon enjoys (that nobody doubts anyway), so we're both kind of just stating our observations.
My observation being that Amazon's sins are easily forgiven (or not even seen as sins), because cheap (e)books is all that some people want and care about (Mobileread is also a quite extreme case of a bargain-hunting mentality at work; there's a very broad consensus here that books should be free or dirt-cheap and a lot of folks pride themselves on the fact that they'd never pay more than 5 or 6 bucks for an ebook. I'm not passing judgement, I'm simply observing that viewing that as some sort of "general public consensus" would be misleading, to say the least.)
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Even if one believes that Amazon doesn't NEED defending, that doesn't mean that those who choose to do so on certain topics, aren't doing so in a logical, clinically-detached manner. Certainly not bias-free, but at least not bias-driven.
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Again: I never said that
every post defending Amazon is bias-driven. But I still strongly believe that the high volume of pro-Amazon posts and the snarky put-downs for almost anyone who disagress are representative of an underlying bias (whose raison d'etre I have already stated twice, so I'll spare you the details).
Let's just agree to disagree.
Matt