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There is also one main difference between US and German book market. Ordering a book in US took two weeks or even month, to ship the book to Boston, before Ama
by kephra 13y ago
There is also one main difference between US and German book market.
Ordering a book in US took two weeks or even month, to ship the book to Boston, before Amazon disrupted the broken US book market. While ordering a book in Germany takes a maximum of two days to any bookstore.
One thing the article does not mention is the real price of ordering a book at amazon: Privacy. There had been lots of cases where CIA or FBI visited people because of the books the bought.
- fpgeek 13y agoUnless you're paying cash for books and not using any sort of membership/discount card when you do, your privacy is just as gone at a physical bookstore as it is at Amazon.
- UVB-76 13y agoNot necessarily; in most cases I would imagine only the book store themselves retain data about your purchase (details of the SKU(s) you purchased, images of you making the purchase on CCTV, etc.) If you use an electronic payment method, only 'metadata' — to use an expression in vogue — about the transaction will be transmitted to third parties, not the details of the particular item(s) you purchased.
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- triplesec 13y agoThis is interesting, if true. Do you have references or proof of this?