Living With My Fear of Amazon, Destroyer of Worlds

I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon. Chances are you do, too.I used to feel pretty good about the e-tailer. Now, increasingly, I feel a little dirty every time I patronize it.For one thing, its nearly yearlong price-setting war with Hachette -- which quietly wrapped up in December with Amazon more or less folding and allowing the book publisher to determine its own ebook prices -- still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Amazon notoriously attempted to pressure Hachette by blocking the ordering and delaying the delivery of various Hachette titles, causing untold damage to the livelihoods of innocent bystanders -- Hachette authors -- who were caught in the crossfire. (Who out there, in search of a Hachette book on Amazon in 2014, just ended up buying something else instead of switching over to, say, BN.com or Powells.com? Show of hands? Yeah, I thought so.) Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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