"To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless……" — George Packer
"To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales."
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24 Quotes by George Packer
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We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
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It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
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It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
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Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and…
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With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.
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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making…
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Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and…
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Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.
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The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line…
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Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
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Twitter is crack for media addicts,
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At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish,…
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