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"Making a profit" may not be a realistic goal. I'm a huge fan of Goodreads.com and I totally understand why Amazon bought it. A small section of the population
by officemonkey 11y ago
"Making a profit" may not be a realistic goal. I'm a huge fan of Goodreads.com and I totally understand why Amazon bought it. A small section of the population reads several books a year, but they represent 80% of all book sales. Creating a community where book readers go to find more books is a huge benefit to Amazon.
Pao's mistake (and one she continues to make) is forgetting that without contributors there is no reddit. I was around to see the center of gravity shift from Slashdot to Digg to Reddit. The one thing I'm certain of: it is overdue for another shift.
- oldmanjay 11y agoThat "Slashdot to Digg" shift was not the exodus that was detrimental to the site. It was more like siphoning whatever the opposite is cream is off the bottom. Slashdot got a little better when that happened, in my opinion.
- rblatz 11y agoSlashdot has been terrible and out of touch for so long I can't even remember when the decline started. It was well before the departure of CowboyNeil. It's a pit of old 90s M$ memes, RMS lovefests, and fear of new technology.
- officemonkey 11y agoWell, I switched from Slashdot to Reddit eight years ago, so I'm calling it then.