Amazon's Special Thank-You

theodp writes "To commemorate its 10th Anniversary, Amazon.com announced that on July 16th customers will receive a special thank-you - a concert featuring Bob Dylan and Norah Jones. Of course, customers will be squinting at streaming video while Amazon employees actually attend the concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, but isn't it the thought that counts?"

Comments

Re:Amazon?

[James_G]

Amazon outsources its investor site to CCBN/Thomson. This is a very common practice. It saves having to host your own SEC feeds, handle sending out of documents on request (10K, for example) and many other things.

Some sites embed it in their own pages (like this) and others just point to the remote URL, (like this). Obviously, Amazon has done the latter.

Yes, but....

[Evanisincontrol]

That would have cost them money.

Streaming a video, on the other hand, only costs them about $50 in bandwidth.

Re:How do they afford this?

[Anonymous Coward]

They've been in the black for a couple of years now...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN&annual

SImple answer, if you really want to help locals.

[Unknown Poltroon]

Call the bookstore.
"Hey, can you order title X,yan z for me?"
BOokstores are 90% of the time willing to order books they dont have in stock for you, espscially the smaller ones. Yeah, its not gonna beat amazon on price or speed, but at least youre helping out someone besides a faceless corporation.