{"id":1951,"date":"2009-06-17T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/06\/17\/is-amazon-run-by-a-simpleton\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T10:25:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:25:57","slug":"is-amazon-run-by-a-simpleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/06\/17\/is-amazon-run-by-a-simpleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Amazon Run by a Simpleton?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim O’Reilly has posted quotes from an interview<\/a> with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n

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“We’ve co-evolved with our tools for thousands of years,” he says, explaining how ease of Kindle buying changes behavior. <\/p>\n

“Reading is an important enough activity that it deserves a purpose-built device….It’s a myth that multi-purpose devices are always better…. I like my phone… I like my swiss army knife too, but I’m also happy to have a set of steak knives.”<\/p>\n

“I get grumpy now when I have to read a physical book….The physical book has had a great 500 year run, but it’s time to change.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm.  First of all, anyone who uses the expression ‘swiss army knife’ in a conversation is skating on very thin ice because if he actually owns one he understands perfectly well that those things are not ‘multi-purpose’ at all.  And no army in the world carries them.  Secondly, if Mr. Bezos is grumpy when he has to read a physical book, he should get out of the bloody book selling business.  What a simpleton.  During Amazon’s entire history of steady growth as the Wal-Mart of the internet, I have never heard Mr. Bezos utter a single intelligent or captivating remark.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, I think it is very clear that Mr. Bezos gets grumpy whenever he has to read anything at all.<\/p>\n

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Tim O’Reilly has posted quotes from an interview with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. “We’ve co-evolved with our tools for thousands of years,” he says, explaining how ease of Kindle buying changes behavior. “Reading is an important enough activity that it deserves a purpose-built device….It’s a myth that multi-purpose devices are always better…. I like my phone… […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,209],"tags":[224,2500,323],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-web","tag-amazon","tag-books","tag-kindle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t