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Salt in who's wound, though? The bookstores that were charging us more for books? Not sure how cheaper books is bad for the consumer.

• Ollinson 11y ago
  There's something to be said for the experience of browsing bookstores (especially ones that stock things other than just bestsellers).
• bezet 11y ago
  This makes me sad. The quintessential consumeristic, capitalist worldview, missing the point entirely. Of course Amazon can offer cheaper products. They have grown to be a massive company, nobody can compete with them now and they make a massive profit that goes to the company owners. Ignore the consumer. What about the bookstore owners who used to make a living and had to close their business because a bigger company basically put them out of business? People who might have worked generations there, perhaps even had family run businesses. Previously the income/wealth would go to many bookstore owners, now it goes to one entity - Amazon. If you don't see a problem in this simply because "hey, I get cheaper stuff, that must be good right?", then I am quite sad. Not everything that is good for the consumer is good everyone on the way. Please remember that.