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@DiapDealer: Also consider yourself to be the prime example that now pops up in my head - whenever I have to explain to people in the future why -

"Voting with your money -"

never works, and never has.

All structural, ethical, environmental, ... deliberations go straight out the window -

when people are weighing

- easy
- cost
and
- comfort

instead.

In fact - if buying at "Whole Foods" wouldn't give you bragging rights in a select social circle - people would press the Amazon mail order button for the next product Alexa suggests they should buy - when they ask it for a kitchen roll - every day of the week.

This is the full circle to why amazon destroying the notion of the book as a public good (or even a intellectual good, or a work of art, ..) - ultimately is an issue that has to be tackled with regulation.

And be it a form of self regulation within the company.

You can't pronounce "easy" - and then don't tell anyone the consequences. People have a tendency to go for easy, or the stuff "they know" -

which reminds me - this was a bait and switch, right? Amazon changed their "product offering" mid product cycle - and without announcing it as something that had any notable differences.

Thats why it didn't make the news.

(But if Bezos tweets, new product announcement impending - 200 blog articles in 3 hours...)