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Amazon's Special Thank-You

Posted by Zonk on from the i'm-old dept.

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?"

18 of 175 comments (clear)

  1. hey, thanks jeff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    now stop trying to patent mouse clicking, you noob.

  2. You know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would've accepted a coupon or something.

  3. Wow Streaming Video! by bloko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man if only i could be that lucky to be a amazon.com customer!

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  4. Screw em by njcoder · · Score: 3, Interesting
    From now on I'm buying all my books from local bookstores. I'll just use amazon.com to help filter through titles, then go to a local shop, sit down and go over the books enjoying the coffee and wifi until I decide on my purchases. I'll even take a picture of me handing the money to the other boostore and send it to amazon.

    That's one thing I hate, corps rewarding their employees and making it seem like they're doing it for the consumer. Why don't they post pictures of the company picnic too.

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    1. Re:Screw em by Xugumad · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Here I have one bookstore literally around the corner from where I live, from which I could get pretty much any fiction title I am likely to want, and there's a larger store within about 40 minutes travelling.

      However:

      1. Neither of them come even close to the range of computing books I need. Even the larger store is almost entirely beginners books, or Windows-focused stuff, none of which is useful to me.

      2. Amazon.co.uk generally ship stuff to me for the next day, and with enough of a discount that it wipes out S&H.

      3. Travelling to the larger store is more expensive than S&H anyway, not to mention generally not wanting to spend an hour travelling to buy a book or two.

  5. Bob Dylan and Norah Jones.... by retro128 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well I guess Amazon's servers have nothing to worry about. But those poor employees....

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  6. Re:Bob Dylan? by FidelCatsro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bob Dylan doing some celebratory concert for Amazon to me says he has finally, totally Sold out.
    The times they are A-changin indeed

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  7. Re:MOD UP by BrianGa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I almost died when I saw him do those horrible Klein commercials. Or was it the GAP?

    Worse.

  8. Re:Bob Dylan? by Kirth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bob Dylan is an asshole. He lobbied for the extension of the copyright-terms -- and guess who exactly is playing old traditionals which copyright has expired? Exactly. What a hipocrite.

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  9. Hey Mister... by chillmost · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tambourine man....(buffering)...(buffering)....play a song...(buffering)...(buffering)...for me. I'm not slee...(buffering)...(buffering)...py and there is no...(buffering)...(buffering)...place I'm going to.

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    1. Re:Hey Mister... by 40000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      " Tambourine man....(buffering)...(buffering)....play a song...(buffering)...(buffering)...for me."

      That's not a bandwidth problem, you're listening to the William Shatner cover.

  10. Re:How do they afford this? by chillmost · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't try to side-step the question Mr. Bezos!!!

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  11. What's with the Amazon bashing? by KingSkippus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For real, why is everyone bashing Amazon? I buy stuff from them all the time. The prices are very competitive on most items, and the selection of stuff is hard to beat. I've been a pretty loyal customer since 1998, and unless something is significantly cheaper somewhere else, I almost always buy anything I need that they sell there.

    If you don't like Bob Dylan or Norah Jones, then don't watch the frickin' concert! Jesus, you'd think that they were having John Ashcroft in concert or something, the way everyone is reacting! ("Let the eagle soar!..." Ugh.)

    My company, a large Fortune 100, does this periodically. For special occasions, it will sponsor a concert for the employees and VIPs. Chances are that Amazon was going to have the concert anyway, and decided to Webcast it just to be nice, so give 'em a frickin' break, already!

    Sheesh, talk about no good deed going unpunished...

  12. Get over yourselves! by Stu+Charlton · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amazon puts up a free concert, and Slashdot idiots go nuclear. What a surprise.

    This isn't deserving of thanks or, 'gee look how kind they are' -- I think of it as an extra service provided by a company. Some will enjoy it, some won't. Why is it deserving of such scorn?

    When AOL did this several times over the past years, with the Rolling Stones, for example, did that deserve scorn?

    Music is highly subjective, but it's the height of adolescent immaturity to slag off Bob Dylan and Norah Jones as crap if you don't like their style of music.

    Get the fuck over yourselves.

    (It was time to burn the karma anyway)

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    1. Re:Get over yourselves! by fishbowl · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "Amazon puts up a free concert, and Slashdot idiots go nuclear."

      Amazon treats its employees to a picnic but tries to frame it as some kind of service to the customers.

      "We're taking your sister to Six Flags -- don't worry, we'll show some pictures of some of the rides, aren't you excited?"

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  13. Re:MOD UP by aka-ed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I love it. Amazon and Victoria's Secret are THE MAN. I can't wait till one of you geniuses notice the JP Morgan Chase involvement. I suppose every one of you has a $7-an-hour "activist" job. If I must endure more self-righteous priggishness about Dylan taking money from big corporations, I'd like to see full disclosure of each critic's sources of income.

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  14. Never never never base copyright on someones death by blonde+rser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Personally, I think that copyrights on music should last until the writer dies, and they should only be given to the song writer.

    Let me say that again. You never never never want to base the length of copyright on someones death. There are enough things that makes passing on hard enough. We don't need to put the added stress on people with the idea that "every day I stay alive is another residue check my family can receive." Or worse "if we unplug dad from the respirator out estate has to give up our copyright." Linking financial matters (even more than we already have) with the process of dying is inhuman. This is one of those cases where something sounds like a good idea but the consequences are disgusting.

  15. Re:Yes, but.... by adpowers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Okay, damn. I wasn't going to say anything, but after seeing so many comments, I just have to? What the fuck is wrong with Bob Dylan? You guys are acting like he's the backstreet boys are something. He is one of the most influential artists of the last century and was a very prolific songwriter. His voice may not be the best, but he has great music.