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Originally Posted by kazbates
Why does it always come down to a question of the US versus everyone else? I'm an American and love my country. (
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Kaz, I don't think it's a case of 'us versus everyone else.' I thinks it's 'us
as we were versus us as we are now and as
we could be.' I say this as an American. One who paid his dues in full during the mid 60's in Vietnam. I loved the US then and I love it now. This is why I want to see it reclaim the world position it once held before it sat back on its laurels and allowed #2, #3, and #4 to
try harder and surpass it.
When I was 16 years old there were eleven American television manufacturers. Today there are none. When I was 16 years old, nine of the ten top world banks were American. Today there are none in the top ten. Amazon started as a book seller. Today it has diversified so far as to sell backyard water parks (which, by the way, they won't ship to my location,) medicines, sporting goods, clothing, etc. Diversification is needed in today's marketplace, but so is globalization. As we e-book buyers have discovered, there are plenty of other retailers out there willing and able to sell to us where ever in the world we are located. For every book we purchase from Fictionwise or the Sony Bookstore, that's one less book that Amazon has sold. Eventually that will have to enter into the thinking of the policy makers. If they want to maximize their advertising dollar, they must begin to think globally. Diversification isn't enough.
I'd love to see Amazon increase its business. But I'd like to see it do that by selling to a broader market.
Stitchawl