Amazon reactions

Struggling Tesco To Take On Amazon
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Tesco is to report its lowest rate of profit growth for seven years as it unveils a strategy to revamp its UK business and compete with Amazon online
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-40128

Daring To Cut Off Amazon
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-40141

Posted at 7:38AM Monday 16 Apr 2012

Plenty of people are upset at Amazon these days, but it took a small 
publishing company whose best-known volume is a toilet-training tome to 
give the mighty Internet store the boot.

The Educational Development Corporation, saying it was fed up with 
Amazon's scorched-earth tactics, announced at the end of February that 
it would remove all its titles from the retailer's virtual shelves.

NY Times 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/business/media/amazons-e-book-pricing-a-constant-thorn-for-publishers.html>

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/business/media/amazons-e-book-pricing-a-constant-thorn-for-publishers.html


Can You Survive Without Amazon?
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-40531
'...To deliberately terminate one's relationship with Amazon is almost inconceivable. Almost but not quite. We have the example of an executive that did it and has lived to tell this David and Goliath tale. ...'
http://ereads.com/2012/05/can-you-survive-without-amazon.html



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