Amazon is excellent at selling physical books. I can order pretty much any vaguely popular book and have it delivered the next day at a price rarely higher than anywhere else.
That’s Amazon’s core business philosophically, everything else is an add on or side project that happened to be profitable.
I think that just like the original sin of web development is trying to run apps in a document browser, the original sin of Amazon is trying to sell everything in a bookstore.
That’s Amazon’s core business philosophically, everything else is an add on or side project that happened to be profitable.
I think that just like the original sin of web development is trying to run apps in a document browser, the original sin of Amazon is trying to sell everything in a bookstore.