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Originally Posted by slayda
I can see your point. I was just trying to say it's comparing apples and oranges to compare Amazon (even if only the book portion but even more so with all their other stuff) to companies like Fictionwise and Barnes and Noble. Such a comparison (all of Amazon's stuff) would be like saying there's more stuff in the world than in my back yard. While true, it is totally meaningless.  |
Agreed. The comparison is flawed at best. But the people who get paid to analyze and write articles on these sorts of comparisons keep churning them out anyway, flawed or not.
The trick is to see the flaw in the analysis and then read the piece with the flaws in the forefront of your mind. I spend a lot of time picking apart legal reasoning that is flawed, and as a result, I've become what is essentially a professional picker of nits. About everything.