Let's Hear it for Amazon.Com And Those Heroic Business Adventures
COMMENTARY | At one time in the world of online living, Amazon.com was simply a great website to order books and other items at superior prices. It offered simple shopping and competitive pricing that proved to be more than just another passing fad. But I'm now inclined to believe the people behind the world's largest website might have more to them than meets the monitor. And here everyone had their eyes on the doings of Facebook and Google. 'Tis to laugh. Jeff Bezos and his team are some of my new heroes. While I've never ordered a single product from the company, I can't help but admire where the company's heading.
What shopper could resent the Internet giant for trying to get California to hold off on another tax? Looking at the offer made by Amazon executives to the state of California, anyone can see the obvious healthy dose of rational self-interest. However, the company is offering to bring thousands of jobs to the State of California, if they'll hold off on a new Internet sales tax law until some time in 2014. Company executives are not asking the Golden State to hold off on the new tax just because it's better for them. They're offering to do something for California in return. Sure, Bezos' brick-and-mortar competitors are unhappy with his proposal, but what else could we expect? Readers have to admit, at least Bezos isn't just a naked man offering his shirt. He brings something to the table.
Who loves to read? Imagine a world where you could tweet questions to an author, as you're enjoying their latest work! Through the Amazon Kindle, and via the @author feature, readers will soon be able to message their thoughts and questions to the people behind the pages. Writing will no longer be a simple matter of getting works to press and then resting on their laurels as the money rolls in. Amazon is helping facilitate the creation of a world wherein any author will not only be able to interact with their readers (in the case of fiction writers) but will also need to be able to back up their claims (in the cases of non-fiction and political writers).
Wait until you hear about Blue Origin! Jeff Bezos, and other free market capitalists are competing to be the first to develop a sustainable system to privatize space flight. The goal is to lower the overall costs of space-travel and further enable humanity's exploration of the stars, in conjunction with NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, the focus of which is to provide cargo flights to the International Space Station. Despite a recent setback, Bezos reports he knew they were "signed up for this to be hard." Spoken like a true adventurer and hero. The team is already working on a new development vehicle.
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Post a Commentgood article, thanks!
Interesting information.
Well, I'd guess Mr King or Ms. Rice could afford to only answer the best questions.
I like the idea of asking an author questions. Problem is 8,000 other people may be asking too, and 'my author' needs time to write more books for me to read. ;)
Interesting info, cheers
The @author feature sounds neat
As far as I can tell, it's something with their websites. Sorry.
Thank you for letting me know, Sadie. I don't know how to get it fixed besides an edit request.
Oh, by the way (double post, sorry) the Business Week article and the Kindle author function links give me a 404.
I think Amazon is holding out for a federal mandate to standardize online sales tax, so they don't have to work up 50 individual and different sales tax setups throughout the country, at least that's what some Amazon Marketplace sellers have said. Their beef is with the nonstandard state-by-state implementation, not the overall concept of taxing online sales.