Comments on: More Amazon in the news http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/more-amazon-in-the-news/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Mon, 20 May 2013 23:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: January http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/more-amazon-in-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1220449 January Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:10:48 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=74744#comment-1220449 You're right, Frank. That's the one feature that made me give the K1 a try. You’re right, Frank. That’s the one feature that made me give the K1 a try.

]]> By: Frank Skornia http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/more-amazon-in-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1220438 Frank Skornia Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:12:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=74744#comment-1220438 Hmm, the infographic is wrong if the connectivity information is supposed to correlate to the models above them. The first-gen Kindle had 3G connectivity through Sprint in what Amazon called Whispernet. That was the perhaps the #1 selling feature that made the Kindle instantly make the eReaders on the market at that time obsolete. Hmm, the infographic is wrong if the connectivity information is supposed to correlate to the models above them. The first-gen Kindle had 3G connectivity through Sprint in what Amazon called Whispernet. That was the perhaps the #1 selling feature that made the Kindle instantly make the eReaders on the market at that time obsolete.

]]> By: AndyBSG http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/more-amazon-in-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1220418 AndyBSG Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:00:57 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=74744#comment-1220418 Correction, it was Andrew Cecil who represented Amazon, Phil Jones is the reporter who wrote the article. Correction, it was Andrew Cecil who represented Amazon, Phil Jones is the reporter who wrote the article.

]]> By: AndyBSG http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/more-amazon-in-the-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1220417 AndyBSG Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:58:40 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=74744#comment-1220417 "Jones notes that there seemed to be more of theater about the questioning than actual substance" The 'theater' came only from Amazon's side when they made the mistake of sending Mr Jones. No idea what his role is in Amazon but given his complete inability to answer even the most basic questions about his company he displayed one of two things.... Complete incompetence or deliberate stupidity in an extremely disrespectful effort to avoid answering the questions. Amazon weren't the only company summoned, Starbucks, who have paid just 8.6 million in tax despite sales of over 3 billion since launching in the UK, and Google were also summoned and neither of their representatives treated parliament with the same disdain that Amazon did. “Jones notes that there seemed to be more of theater about the questioning than actual substance”

The ‘theater’ came only from Amazon’s side when they made the mistake of sending Mr Jones.

No idea what his role is in Amazon but given his complete inability to answer even the most basic questions about his company he displayed one of two things…. Complete incompetence or deliberate stupidity in an extremely disrespectful effort to avoid answering the questions.

Amazon weren’t the only company summoned, Starbucks, who have paid just 8.6 million in tax despite sales of over 3 billion since launching in the UK, and Google were also summoned and neither of their representatives treated parliament with the same disdain that Amazon did.

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