From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 13:29:08 -0700 Nancy Herther of the University of Minnesota Libraries has an excellent piece on the Against the Grain Newschannel site, published a few days ago, which brings together a lot of detail for a broad view of what Amazon is doing and where it's going. Two URLs, it's in two parts: http://www.against-the-grain.com/2017/05/jeff-bezos-amazon-part-1-put-the-customer-first-invent-and-be-patient/ http://www.against-the-grain.com/2017/06/atg-newschannel-original-jeff-bezos-amazon-part-2-moving-from-book-sales-to-the-cloud-and-beyond-is-there-no-stopping-this-behemoth/ My takeaway was that Amazon now so dominates the bookselling industry that there is about to be room for a niche business that actually sells books. They are handling the commodity bookselling business well, but they are doing fewer and fewer of the things that actual bookstores do to add value. Jim O'Donnell ASU