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amazon hats customers
I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat). Charles Stross
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We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us. Patti Smith
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We believe that free shipping programs, including Amazon Prime, had a much greater negative impact to Amazon's gross margins than we'd originally anticipated.
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There are lots of things about Amazon for which they deserve credit. They're innovative. There are lots of very, very happy Amazon customers. I'm not here to dispute that Amazon has been personally good for me or to say that they haven't been, so far, good to their customers. Scott Turow
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We're excited by the success of WhatsApp on top of Android. Amazon brings services like Kindle on top of Android. It's a competitive world and a lot more complex than people realize. When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others. Sundar Pichai
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I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. John Grisham
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. Candice Millard
amazon hope others
We hope Amazon and others can make it work.
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Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather. Edmund White
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Amazon didn't create any jobs. Amazon probably destroyed a million jobs in our economy. Nick Hanauer
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I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth. Olivia Newton-John
amazon books finance literally personal search written
If you look on Amazon - if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there's no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple. Aaron Patzer
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The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future. Ted Sarandos
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I've learned from numerous sources that e-mail marketing is still far more effective in driving book sales than social media. That's why we all get those e-mail blasts from Amazon every morning. Teresa Medeiros
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix. Xavier Niel
amazon download evolve existing market natural
We don't know how big a market this is going to be in the US, Amazon is a big existing customer, and it would be natural for them to evolve into a download model.
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We believe Amazon will lack any catalysts to move it higher and we consider the stock overvalued compared to peers.
amazon knows less microsoft people xbox
Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess. Robert Scoble
amazon author both earn exploiting large money print
When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress. Virginia Postrel
amazon coming longer publishing titles
One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves. Catherine Ryan Hyde
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One reason Yahoo came at this price was they wanted to make it difficult for Amazon and MTV and people like that, that have waited so long to get into the business. I think it's going to be really quite interesting to see what Amazon offers, in terms of pricing.
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On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year. Maria Semple
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Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more. Jeff Goodell
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I am surprised that paper doesn't pick up the Amazon and Congo basins, regions where there is a large number of animal species with small ranges. Thomas Brooks
amazon control cut guess losses measures next release report seen slammed street taking telling trying week
My guess is that Amazon has seen the writing on the wall, ... They think they'll get slammed next week when they release their quarterly report and they're trying to cut their losses by telling the Street they're taking measures to control costs.
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Nothing ever replaces anything. When TV came along, radio didn't go away. This has the potential to unlock local ad dollars, but Amazon doesn't want to take phone calls.
amazon disclosure growth level nobody produces
If Amazon produces the numbers, nobody will care. If the growth isn't there, then I think it will become more of an issue. Why isn't there the disclosure level that we would expect?
amazon buy dead eliminate fast people rent service
If Amazon can get to that fast track, it would eliminate the need for people to go out to rent or buy movies. If it doesn't, this service could be dead on arrival.
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I don't think it will drive that much traffic. Why would a consumer go to Amazon to sign up with Fidelity? It sounds interesting but why? What's the value proposition?
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I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of some of their employees and starting to do the things that other companies that have problems do,
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The profitability of the business hasn't been any better than it has been. It is still low margins and price-competitive. The question investors should ask is if Amazon is a retailer or an Internet stock. I would argue that it is a retailer.
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I'm playing an Amazon warrior princess in a new radio comedy series called 'Elvenquest,' and I'm playing a Russian genius in the comeback of 'Red Dwarf.' Sophie Winkleman