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The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

I use Amazon for books. I use Amazon for loads of other things. I regard Amazon as a source, as I think a lot of other people do.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.

Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.