Thursday, June 12, 2008


All Things Digital
The Way We Read
Amazon.com's Jeffrey Bezos on why books are like horses
From The Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2008.

Jeffrey P. Bezos, as chairman, president and chief executive of Amazon.com Inc., made e-commerce mainstream when Amazon started selling books over the Internet in 1994.
Since then, he has turned the site into a virtual shopping mall, where the company and thousands of independent merchants sell just about anything from abacuses to zithers.

He spoke with The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg about cloud computing, streaming movies and why books are like horses. Here are edited excerpts of that conversation.

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