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The first "gas-powered truck" was born one year after Ernest Hemmingway, so I'm going to say that it was something else. Likewise, the book-of-the-month club s
by mynameishere 17y ago
The first "gas-powered truck" was born one year after Ernest Hemmingway, so I'm going to say that it was something else. Likewise, the book-of-the-month club started in 1926 and their business model was basically the same as Amazon's, except they did the ordering. So, I wouldn't blame distribution systems of any sort.
- eastgate 17y agoActually, the negative-option book club is an entirely different business model from Amazon. Book of the Month, moreover, contracted for special printings; they were an aggregator/publisher, not a reseller. The Hemingway point is really unconvincing; by "truck", of course, I mean the changing economies of direct interstate shipment of bulk items. When Hemingway was born, moving mass economically meant either water or rail transit; when he died, trucks were careening down interstate highways to deliver parcels for a fraction of what they cost in the 19th century.