The Price of Amazon - NYTimes.com: "The Amazon.com story is remarkable. Within living memory, bookselling was a local activity. A major city would have two or three large independent stores selling new books and other large, scruffier stores selling secondhand books. Paperbacks would receive wide if uneven circulation on bus station and drugstore racks. It was not a perfect system, but it had the advantage of being diffuse and thus hard to control. The hippie, black and women’s movements of the 1960s would not have been so successful in challenging authority without the bookstores, which made their ideas widely available and sympathetic in a way that television, for instance, did not. That transmission system has now been largely dismantled, killed by high rents and new technology. With little discussion, Amazon has skillfully absorbed a large part of the book trade. It sells about one in four new books, and the vast number of independent sellers on its site increases its market share even more. It owns as a separate entity the largest secondhand book network, Abebooks. And of course it has a majority of the e-book market. . . ." (read more at the link above)
Tali Carmi's Children's Book,'Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg', Emerges as Best ...Wall Street Journal
Children's story book - 'Terry Treetop and the Lost Egg' by Tali Carmi emerges as best seller eBookin its category for the month of June. This is the second book in the series: "Happy Inspired children's books Collection" published on amazon.com ...
Book a pizza or pasta for a train journeyHindu Business Line
You can now book your pizza or pasta through Internet before boarding a train and food will be delivered at your seat during the journey. Much to the delight of train passengers, the Railway Ministry has decided to launch a pilot project of booking ...
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