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Dropping Profits Sends Amazon In Odd Directions

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-you-like-my-song-and-dance dept.

tabdelgawad writes "The Washington Post has a story detailing how Amazon has purchased the rights to turn a recently published book into a feature-length movie. The article also outlines other 'strange directions' Amazon has taken in response to declining profits and a plummeting stock price, including moving into the grocery business and producing original live webcasts and streaming shows."

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  1. Re:Prepare to be toppled! by Millenniumman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Go to wikipedia.

    In the search field type "web 2"

    Press go.

    Read.

    Wikipedia needs to be a verb, like google. So when people ask what things like web 2 are you can tell them "wikipedia it!".

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  2. Re:We'll Tell You What You Like by Moofie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "It's a morally shaky practice"

    Huh? What kind of crazy morals are YOU talking about? The only "morally shaky practice" would be if Jeff Bezos came to your house and told you he'd kick your dog if you didn't buy the book.

    "Morally shaky"? I'll tell you what's morally shaky: Blaming somebody else for your own free actions. Don't like the book? Don't buy it. If you buy the book, and you don't like it, that's nobody's fault but your own. Caveat emptor.

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  3. Microsoft: The Movie by Live_in_Dayton · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Call this post flame bait, but I have to ask, how would Microsoft do a movie?