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Originally Posted by Shane R
It's been said for a while that Mr Bezos was an original thinker, perhaps there's something to it.
I'm most surprised that he's been able to stand behind the scenes and sling filth at the authors and publishers and still come out top 5 in reputation.
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Source please?
Bezos himself slings filth?
No snark: I'd like to see a report and context.
Given all the crap he's taken from the likes of Wylie and the Au gang I wouldn't be surprised if he did snap back but I'd like to see the what, where, and when. Fair?
As to the company's reputation, well contrary to the zombie memes, Amazon is actually a pretty good corporate citizen by the yardsticks used in the business reputation survey; they minimize packaging waste, among other green initiatives; they hire local in most countries where they do enough business to justify it; their entry level salaries are 50% above minimum wage, they offer stock bonuses and educational programs... Most of the things they are dinged over don't register or are actually pluses from the corporate governance point of view.
And then, on the consumer side... well we all know their reputation with buyers: number one brand in the September Harris survey.
They even released a diversity report on their workforce that paints them as pretty typical for a US company and better than most tech companies:
http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-dive...ale-and-white/
No angels or demons found in the survey. Just typical corporate types.
Much like Apple or Google.
(Of course, nobody's asked John Constantine...)
Now, the publishing industry...
Well, let publishers weekly speak:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...ry-survey.html