“None of the six largest publishers in the U.S. is participating,” reports the Wall Street Journal. “Several senior publishing executives said recently they were concerned that a digital-lending program of the sort contemplated by Amazon would harm future sales of their older titles or damage ties to other book retailers.”
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“The decision by Koch Methanol to invest in YCI Methanol sends a clear signal to the industry about the strength of this facility,” said Yao, CEO and president of YCI.
“It?breaks my heart a little,” Gladwell told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang. “… I have sold through Amazon, millions of books. I have contributed?mightily?to their bottom line. I would have thought they had seen me as an asset. Me and other writers have brought people to their site in droves. Now?they’ve turned on us. It is, to say the least, a puzzling strategy for a business to turn on its assets. I would love to have a conversation with Jeff Bezos about the self-destructive nature of his particular strategy.”
“It will moderate at some point, certainly, but given the growth we’re experiencing right now we’re investing and we’re making sure we have the right resources to do that,” said Amazon’s chief financial officer,?Tom Szkutak, answering a question from an analyst during a conference call this afternoon.
“The competitive advantage that Seattle has, as an industry, is primarily in our relatively affordable housing,” he said. “We don’t have more workers here or more educated workers than they have in the Bay Area. We certainly don’t have more venture capital than in the Bay Area. There’s more of everything that you would build businesses around in the Bay Area except that you can’t afford to live there.”
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“Opening new markets will mitigate some of the potential trade disruptions we may face in a post-Brexit world,” Hadley said. “And we know what an impact the China market can have from our experiences with pork.”
“I’m wary of any dealing with Real now. I’m not convinced that they’ve made real changes that would prevent something like this from ever happening again.”–?GeekWire reader and contributor Christopher Budd commenting on the settlement.
“The simple truth is that Amazon, the leviathan that calls Seattle home, is currently building a private data cloud for the CIA. With this cloud, the CIA will be better able to incinerate entire Yemeni families with Predator drones, stalk domestic and foreign dissidents, and keep track of its operatives across the planet.?Amazon is now directly complicit in every new death?caused by the CIA.”
“The characteristics of this type of job, the evidence shows increased risk of mental illness and physical illness,” Professor?Michael Marmot?told BBC.