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Malcolm is wrong
- jleyank 17y agoI think Amazon's going to get disintermediated, just like they disintermediated others. Why should I pay serious coin to get something that doesn't do what a cell phone, iPod, portable PC or PC does? They should recognize the process. And I think we're going to continue to see newspapers, in that they're easier to read (and can be read off-line). Maybe 1, maybe 5 newspapers per country, but they're going to be there. They'll be the source for things that appear in Google, possibly taking over AP/UPI. Or, newspapers and news will morph, making sites like the BBC the future. But people value information with value, and life's too short to calibrate the mass of information available on-line. And, people want to eat, so if I want somebody gathering news, they've got to be paid. And paid enough to make them do newsgathering rather than all the alternatives their talents lead them to.