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like any for by the support of the europe, by the support of the united states, that's why the sibar, the land, well, i was at the babel sham's protest last week, and i myself had a of my head banged against a bus by a soldier. illegally on illegal stolen land and they are arresting us, the palestinians, this is historical palestine. amazon was very important to the success of my book. i know that they do lot. lot of
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internal marketing efforts, they're able to tell what kinds of books people like, and therefore when they recommend a book to one of their customers, it's based on previous uh purchases and previous kinds of books that that person has read, so i do think that that really helped to get my book in front of potential readers. when publishers became more dependent on amazon, it was bazos's turn to change amazon. a structure. besos believes that the whole market should be for himself alone. this means the maximum reduction in prices. so amazon announced that from then on, publishers should give more discounts to amazon, which reached up to 50% of the price of the back cover of the book. basus's decision greatly reduced publishers profits. on the other hand, if a publish like mcmillen
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rejected this offer, amazon would remove the purchase option for this publisher's books or customers wouldn't be able to see mcmillan's books on the front page of amazon's website, which actually meant the destruction of publishers. another important event in the new century was the change of amazon's algorithms. earlier, the editors and content producers recommended the books and reviewed them, but since 2000, it was the personalization algorithm that determined which books to recommend to whom? it was based on previous purchases on amazon's knowledge of the customers, then if amazon were to introduce a book, publishers would have to pay $10,000. according to amazon's contract and confidentiality policies, it will never be known. what effect these ads
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would have on sales? kindle dx wireless reading device worsen the situation for the publishers. if you're an amazon customer, you're almost always satisfied. and will never waste your
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money. you buy anything at the cheapest possible price. if you change your position and become a supplier for amazon, then the situation will be very bad. the price of audio books on amazon is very low. for example, the audio file of a book which is printed version costs $20, can be purchased for only $4. you can get some free books as gifts as well. amazon also offers strange subscriptions for its customers. for example, you can buy audio books for your child for $2.99 per month. if printed, these books are at least 10 times the price. in this situation, it is natural that no publisher can compete with amazon. even other. big
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competitors cannot win in this situation, even the world's technology giant apple fails as well. in 2010, amazon had 95% of the audio book market share and apple wanted to be part the deal. apple executives arranged meetings with five major publishers and suggested that the pricing ibook be done by the publishers and 30% of the profit would go to apple. meanwhile, bayos announced that the price of audi books would be reduced to 99 cents. a few weeks after the decision of the publishers and apple, amazon filed complaints against these companies in the federal trade commission. in the spring of 2012, the us
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court of justice found apple and five publishers guilty of conspiring to raise prices and prevent competition. finally, all publishers negotiated and agreed with the government. amazon's battle with hatchet and the authors that hatchet publishes is heating up. mcmillan and penguin had to pay $20 millions and $75 million dollars respectively. it was a large amounts of money that was difficult to pay in a business that always suffered from lack of profit. apple appealed the supreme court ruling. in the summer of the same year, the judge ruled in favor of the government, and in fact, amazon. apple was sentenced to pay $845 million in
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damages because the company had violated anti-trust laws according to the government. in fact, the government. ment believe that amazon operated completely based on the free market and competition rules. however, at the end of the day, amazon monopolized the audiobook market. after this decision, many people talked about busus's secret relationship with american judges and of course the government. exactly 3 weeks after winning the court case against apple. barack obama visited an amazon warehouse in the chattanuga area where workers were paid average of $11 an hour. he praised the creation of decent employment by amazon. it's great to be here at amazon. everything was
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coordinated to benefit besos the most. last year during the busiest day of the christmas rush, customers around the world ordered more than... 300 items from amazon every second. reducing prices is the biggest service that amazon has provided to its customers. however, it was possible to reduce the prices and the cost until a certain time. from then on, he had to play the game based on his own rules. amazon warehouses are built in cities with the highest unemployment rates with the lowest. wages for workers. in recent years, amazon has contributed lot to the employment of americans and has hired 30,000 people a year. workers who enter these warehouses do not have the right to be members of any union. according to eyewitnesses, they work
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in strange conditions. you have security cameras right behind you at all. uh that are looking at you um 24/7 and if you don't meet standards or the rates, you're out the door, you're just disposable, every worker has a scanner at all times that basically track exactly where you're at, and they have a little blue line at the bottom of the screen, and it has like how many seconds that you have to have it done by the time it hit zero, and it puts you into panic mode. and pretty much you can't talk to people, you can't be in the same aisle as them, you just constantly have to sit this cannon like robot all day long, if they catch you not scanning, you get it right up, and what they're doing is they're producing this massive data that they are using to be able to analyze the
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entire workforce, each worker in this department walks about 11 miles per shift considering such restrictions. the worker has only 33 seconds in order to pack a product. in the us, they hired 47 people for this type of jobs for every $10 million in revenue. this figure for amazon is 14 people for every $10 million. this situation reminds everyone of modern times directed by charlie chaplin. everyone has only one task to do in these warehouses and there is no such thing as creativity. besos also eliminates publishers to reduce the costs. amazon has been
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publishing books for many years. if you want your books to be published in audio format, you will receive up to 70% of the revenue. this figure is about 15% in the printed books of other publishers. publishers are worried about amazon's policy, because right now, it is amazon that has control over. everything and has created a kind of monopoly in book industry. when customers and publishers are satisfied, there is no one left to claim anything. the us government also supports amazon and the us citizens.
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all 130 companies of the amazon group are active in the fashion industry, chain supermarkets, bag and shoe sales, podcast production, cloud storage, books, photography, data analysis, cinema and several other areas. it is huge organization in which everything exists and that is indicated in the amazon logo. there is yellow arrow that goes from a to z. it means that there is everything in amazon, but jeff bezos thinks that you can't find everything in amazon, but amazon in everything itself. when you check, "i am..." db site, when you purchase from whole food market, when you buy
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shoes from zapos, when you buy groceries from amazon fresh, when you buy clothes from shopbop, when you use aws and check all sites to buy online products, you're actually active in amazon and help jeff bezos get richer. when you watch a movie on netflix, you're actually helping besos, because netflix uses aws. that is why jeff bezos is the richest man in the world news tonight, a stunner from the richest man in the world. besos knows people's interests because he's well aware of their taste in choosing. in fact, bezos was one of the first people to understand that information was the most
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valuable thing in cybererspace and the internet. many experts believed that selling books was just the way for bezos to collect information from people. bezos now owns the information of millions of people around the world and has managed to launch amazon's warehouses. amazon warehouses store products that the customer does not know about, but amazon predicts that people will need these products in the near future and stores them in warehouses near customers houses. he was part of the online revolution that put the future of printed word up in the air, can it help save it within the last few minutes? cnn has learned that jeff bezos, the founder and ceo of amazon.com, is buying the washington
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post. in 2015, jeff bezos bought washington post for 250 million dollars. it was a strange because bezos was not interested in paper and printing, but he bought the washington post company's newspaper publishing business. when he first visited the washington post, he clearly manifested his feelings. he asked the managers to look for tablet for reading newspaper. in fact, bezos became more powerful by buying the washington post. now he is a man with lot of money, media and lot of information. he only needs weapons to create a self-governing government. this deal could give him more
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influence over politics. nobody hangs out in washington dc just to go... to the free museums, you buy a home in washington, you buy a newspaper in washington because it is the most influential city in the world, and you want to lay your hands on that power. it is not possible for many people in the world to live without amazon. this company has become so big that others have to adapt themselves to it. it is just like the amazon river, because there is life next to it, but if there is filuvial, people will lose their lives for sure. people's lives are affected by any small change in amazon. companies that prefer to be a part of amazon instead of confronting it, are best described in a
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sentence in a flag of sunrise book by robert stone. sometimes the mouse is so afraid that it endangers itself and goes to the cat itself. it seems that the cat and mouse game has entered new era.
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"we must not become part of south africa's problem. we must remain part of their solution. we must not aim to impose ourselves our solutions. our favorites in south africa. damn it, we have favorites in south africa. the favorites in south africa are the people who are being repressed by that ugly white regime. we have favorites. i also want to say a word about the situation in israel. the more we learned about the attack, the more horrifying it becomes. more than one." 1 th00 innocent lives lost including at least 27 americans, these guys make, they make al-qaeda look pure, they're pure, they're
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pure evil, but i said from the beginning, the united states make no mistake about it, stands with israel, united states stands with israel. the sun shown to announce the beginning of new day. it was the 13th day of the war on the gaza's rap. look at the missile, what did we do to deserve being hit by this? the army bombed the children on the beach and destroyed our houses. they killed children,
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men, women, and old men. i have other place to go, so now my children and i are homeless. it is the israelies habit from ages, they say that children fire rockets.