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Originally Posted by Graham44
Amazon is just a company, there isn't anything on Amazon I couldn't buy somewhere else instead.
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Is that so. I am afraid I have some bad news for you. Many ebooks are only available via Amazon. They aren't available at any other ebook store. Partly this is due to the exclusivity of Kindle Unlimited, but not just that.
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Originally Posted by Graham44
I don't know whether it's clever marketing on Amazons part or maybe a cultural thing but I truly don't understand where this fear of leaving Amazon comes from.
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From my perspective, it certainly isn't a fear, it's about not throwing out the baby with the bath water. It's about not burning your bridges unnecessarily.
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They are just a shop, a shop with a terrible reputation, nothing more, nothing less.
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Indeed, they can be a bit that way. But I don't see it as simple as that.
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As for my leaving not making a difference to Amazon, no of course it doesn't but that's not why I left, it's having something called principles, something that people used to put more stock in. Amazon are operating in a way I personally think is wrong, I don't like the ethics of the company so why would I support them?
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You can still achieve that by not buying anything further from them.
Take me, I don't buy anything from Amazon unless I absolutely have to, because other options are not available to me. Even then, I may still avoid using them if I wish ... depends on how much I want something.
Whether we like it or not, most providers of product see Amazon as having the largest customer market, and often their livelihood can depend on that.
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I asked for my account to be deleted for simple safety reasons, I don't want my details left with a company I won't be using anymore, just good housekeeping to my mind  |
You can believe that if you want. But if they are truly what you believe them to be, you are already compromised.
As they say, keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.
There's a bit of irony here, because I am not a fan of Amazon at all, but here I am kind of defending them ... though I'm not really, and in 3 months or 6 months etc, I may no longer be using them myself. I will however keep my options open though and access to my records. I see that as being smart, despite how I emotionally feel about Amazon.
It's not about fear, it is about control.