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Not very useful. Many of the listings have “Amazon” in the name so it’s obvious who owns them. Most of the rest are branded items, which isn’t the same as a “bu
by massysett 7y ago
Not very useful. Many of the listings have “Amazon” in the name so it’s obvious who owns them. Most of the rest are branded items, which isn’t the same as a “business” because I think most people know that retailers sell branded items, and besides, Amazon prominently identifies many of these, such as “Pinzon by Amazon”. So really all that is left is maybe half a dozen items, like Zappos and Whole Foods.
- jammygit 7y agoHad no idea that goodreads and IMDb were amazon
- acgh213 7y agoIMDb surprised me at first, but goodreads was openly discussed on the site when Amazon took over.
- manojlds 7y agoIMDB prominently used in Prime Videos and the site explicitly says An Amazon Company. Compare that to Zappos - more difficult to find.
- jdsully 7y agoWhen Zappos was acquired they made a big deal about keeping their unique culture.
- obmelvin 7y agoEh, I think it can be useful to others. Your point about Amazon being explicitly part of some of the names is certainly fair. However, a few months ago I saw something on HN that has had me informally polling friends to see if they know who owns YouTube. I find it so obviously owned by Google, but to my surprise most of my friends I've asked didn't know (20s, some of them in PhD programs). Well aware this is not a statistically valid poll, but my point is that there are at least some well educated people who have no clue about some of these corporate relationships.
- ReinholdNiebuhr 7y agoI've run into quite a few people who denounce amazon and then say they shop at abebooks. I will add, it gets really annoying having to use different sign ins. I collect old rare cookbooks. So sometimes I'm on the italian, french and other euro stores. You'd think amazon would just link it to the regular store and have the listed abebooks under the used merchants. That's not always the case. For login, same goes with the other amazon euro stores.
- chatmasta 7y agoMost of the brands on this list I had never heard of. The ones I had, I already knew were owned by Amazon. I’m also not sure what the point of the article is.