01-02-2020, 06:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2020, 06:12 PM by Mike Watterson.)
Goodreads, CreateSpace, Book Depository, AbeBooks, IMDB, Audible (audio books) and too many other things owned by Amazon. They have over 80% of USA online paper sales of books and over 90% of worldwide eBooks. Audio books has 22% growth and dominated by Amazon.
They are not evil and immoral in the sense that Alphabet/Google and Facebook are. But as with most US corporations, insufficiently regulated. They legitimately avoided profit and thus tax for many years by building up AWS (Cloud services etc), such that it had I think 25 Billion revenue in 2018. It's more profitable than any retail organisation, so much so that Amazon's own retail is like small change beside AWS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_me..._by_Amazon
Order from your local bookshop unless it's an eBook. The second biggest eBook after Amazon might only be 5% of sales! Smashwords.com supplies Apple, Barns & Noble, Kobo, Libraries. Don't get books from Google Books/Playstore as piracy is rife.
Alphabet/Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_me...y_Alphabet The two founders are really three. No garage Rags to Riches. Eric Schmitt is the guiding force and financed the start. Needs broken up. Android was bought in. Google Chrome, Chromebook, Analytics, Google Location services, Gmail, Maps, Youtube are all Alphabet spyware.
Facebook (Whatsapp, Instagram) started as a site for people to rate girls at Harvard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_me...y_Facebook It should simply shut down. Only exists to harvest personal data and sell adverts using the lie that personalisation makes it so much better than TV, Radio, paper, bill boards.
Facebook & Google control over 80% of Internet adverts.
They are not evil and immoral in the sense that Alphabet/Google and Facebook are. But as with most US corporations, insufficiently regulated. They legitimately avoided profit and thus tax for many years by building up AWS (Cloud services etc), such that it had I think 25 Billion revenue in 2018. It's more profitable than any retail organisation, so much so that Amazon's own retail is like small change beside AWS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_me..._by_Amazon
Order from your local bookshop unless it's an eBook. The second biggest eBook after Amazon might only be 5% of sales! Smashwords.com supplies Apple, Barns & Noble, Kobo, Libraries. Don't get books from Google Books/Playstore as piracy is rife.
Alphabet/Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_me...y_Alphabet The two founders are really three. No garage Rags to Riches. Eric Schmitt is the guiding force and financed the start. Needs broken up. Android was bought in. Google Chrome, Chromebook, Analytics, Google Location services, Gmail, Maps, Youtube are all Alphabet spyware.
Facebook (Whatsapp, Instagram) started as a site for people to rate girls at Harvard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_me...y_Facebook It should simply shut down. Only exists to harvest personal data and sell adverts using the lie that personalisation makes it so much better than TV, Radio, paper, bill boards.
Facebook & Google control over 80% of Internet adverts.
