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Lazyness? Its why Amazon is such a success. Too difficult to do online search. Amazon is convinient.
It's generally not the search, it's the payment and shipping
It's not the shipping; it's the return policy. Amazon's is almost impossible to beat apart from certain in-person stores like Costco or perhaps ALDI.
Yeah - now, the downsides of this are well covered, especially by Corey Doctrow, in that once the users are locked into the platform, Amazon decreases the actual benefits - and then starts chisling the sellers as well.
But to fix that, you do need to do something besides just scold the customers.
Doubt it, most other online stores with the same coverage do offer similar conditions.
The difference is the wide range of products available on Amazon. I can buy 5 products from widely different areas and only pay shipping once (or maybe twice depending on availability).
If I were to order these 5 products on 5 different stores I'd pay 5 times shipping.
And most Amazon customers have prime, meaning they've prepaid shipping already.
Your local or regional provider can and will send you books in the same time - perhaps not in 24h, but this may be rarely the case that somebody is in a such dearly need of a book.
I am buying books from my local provider, though more expensive, but I want people to have jobs - considering how many bookstores closed due to Amazon - and the possibility to go there, have a book in my hand and read it a bit.
It's been a while since I've seen Amazon talked about as a book store.
It's not just books. Amazon offers many more goods, and locks people in with Prime.
I don't like it, but just claiming it as a sign of virtue won't change that.
True. And although some studies reported a positive effect on companies, I have my doubts based on what I have seen with my eyes in my city. A study issues further concerns:
https://www.economicliberties.us/our-work/the-local-harms-of-amazon/