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Is Amazon Changing the Novel? November 05, 2021
In the new literary landscape, readers are customers, writers are service providers, and books are expected to offer instant gratification....
What Amazon Did to Fiction October 21, 2021
If you’ve been lucky enough to spend the lockdown reading, you probably lined Jeff Bezos’ pocket. Even though books make up just a sliver of Amazon’s total business (less than 7 percent of the company’s $386 billion revenue now comes from the commodi...
Amazon Is Getting 'Perilously Close to Invincible’ May 17, 2021
“I wonder what unit profitability was in 2017 without advertising?”That seemingly mundane question, posed by Jeff Bezos during a meeting of Amazon’s senior leadership team, won’t get as much attention as other details from business journalist Brad St...
One-Click Shopping Is Economically Unsustainable March 15, 2021
To hear him tell it, Jeff Bezos loves stories.Not necessarily the ones contained in books — those items that propelled Amazon’s rise from its beginnings in a Seattle garage in 1994 to the global behemoth it is today. Bezos started out by selling book...
Ryan T. Anderson's Moment March 05, 2021
For the last nine years, Ryan T. Anderson has been active in Washington public policy circles as a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, and as a cheerful advocate across several media for religious liberty, traditional marriage, the sanctity of lif...
Amazon: Buy Anything, Except This Book February 23, 2021
Amazon.com, Inc., perhaps the most commanding force in American consumer culture, wants you to believe that the highly charged issue of transgenderism is resolved. It won’t allow its marketplace to entertain the conversation any longer.The company ha...
Bezonomics May 13, 2020
Long ago, I worked at a magazine that put the chief executives of America’s five best-managed companies on its cover each December. Wall Street analysts eagerly awaited our annual feature, but not for the intended reason. Very often, a corporate boss...
The Hate Store April 10, 2020
“Give me, a white man, a reason to live,” a user posted to the anonymous message board 4chan in the summer of 2017. “Should I get a hobby. What interests can I pursue to save myself from total despair. How do you go on living.”A fellow user had a sug...
In Amazon's Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite August 22, 2019
In George Orwell’s “1984,” the classics of literature are rewritten into Newspeak, a revision and reduction of the language meant to make bad thoughts literally unthinkable. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words,” one true believer exults...
