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Originally Posted by Hellmark
The difference is that with food, it is exceedingly hard and expensive to keep an organic diet in many regions, compared to Amazon will sell you anything you want. They don't make it more difficult to buy the "good stuff", or raise the price. They have no vested interest in having you buy certain things, but they will put something on the front page if they think you're going to be more likely to buy it. With their program for encouraging webpages to link to items for sale, they in some ways make it easy to get what Le Guin would like, or anyone else.
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Exactly.
Their business model annoys the BPH-friendly establishment because instead of promoting what the publishers are peddling at any given moment, or what "the masses" are buying at the moment, they promote what they think the specific customer wants to buy. They will just as happily sell a high-falluting SJW screed as a fractured fairy tale or a tough guy fantasy just as they will sell you a Sony PlayStation or an XBOX without commenting on which camp you belong to.
All they care about is:
1- happy customers
2- repeat business
3- making money
And that is because 1&2 are the key to 3.
Because they aren't in business for their health but to make mojey.
All of which kinda offends certain classes of people.