{"id":3816,"date":"2014-02-10T10:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3816"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:07","slug":"is-amazon-bad-for-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/10\/is-amazon-bad-for-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Amazon Bad for Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do we need to be worried about Amazon?<\/p>\n

It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a love of books that led him to start an online bookstore. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was totally based on the property of books as a product,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Shel Kaphan, Bezos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s former deputy, says. Books are easy to ship and hard to break, and there was a major distribution warehouse in Oregon. Crucially, there are far too many books, in and out of print, to sell even a fraction of them at a physical store. The vast selection made possible by the Internet gave Amazon its initial advantage, and a wedge into selling everything else. For Bezos to have seen a bookstore as a means to world domination at the beginning of the Internet age, when there was already a crisis of confidence in the publishing world, in a country not known for its book-crazy public, was a stroke of business genius.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via the New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[218,891,693],"class_list":["post-3816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-amazon","tag-is-amazon-good-or-bad","tag-the-new-yorker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3816\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}