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: walkitout (walkitout) wrote,
2012-03-20 23:19:00

walkitout
walkitout
2012-03-20 23:19:00

Evidence That Amazon is Taking Over the World

(1) They dominate the world market for ebooks (and their US numbers may be much better than everyone has been saying):

http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/03/20/bowker-amazon-dominates-the-world-ebook-market/

(2) They are catching up with Wal-Mart (and Wal-Mart is desperately trying to catch up with them):

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-20/wal-mart-gears-up-online-as-customers-defect-to-amazon.html

(3) They have acquired a robot army:

http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/20/technology/amazon-kiva-robots/

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