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Originally Posted by nrsbfrkv
From China as well, and new account for obvious reasons.
Actually it's your point 3 that's the reason. Companies need license to distribute content in China, books/music/movie, you name it. The caveat is foreign company can not apply on its own, so Amazon has to choose a Chinese partner, and its partnership bailed out. If you need reference, during the first few days after this announcement, on a certain programmer forum some insiders described the way Amazon circumvented numerous regulations, but by now they are all censored.
Overall I'm pretty amazed Amazon pulled this off for so long actually. Because you can not name another foreign company which distribute books in China, period. Among those cultural content, the control over books is the most tight. Even Apple has to quietly close down iBooks in China after a pretty high-profile announcement a few years back, and mind you Apple has great great relation with China gov.
Point 1 and 2 is kinda irrelevant because same can be said outside China as well. The audiences simply don't overlap.
Precisely. TikTok/Zoom can be advertised as No.1 all day long in the US, while western companies get blocked behind GFW without a trace, most ppl don't even know their existence. This is the problem.
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Exactly this. Bing mysteriously shut down a few times before quickly rebooting, yet even now many search queries return “no results”. These aren’t politically sensitive or anything and I can only hypothesize why this is the case. Kindle was the most open bookstore in China. I live here and so I don’t wish to be political, but the regular selection of books have always been available. As a foreigner living here, it made me feel at home and after I realized Kobo wasn’t allowed here Kindle and Bing always made me feel like I had an acceptable compromise.