The New Post-Amazon Bookstore - Andrew Sullivan's Book Club.
This link will take you to Andrew Sullivan's Book Club. I wonder if this is the new post Amazon bookstore? Here is why I think this. Andrew enables us book nuts to have a club to talk about the books we like. He therefore extends the powerful reader review part of the Amazon site and creates a deeper community. If you buy the book from him linked to Amazon, he gets 15% but you don't pay any more. So Andrew becomes a power store for Amazon. Good for Andrew good for Jeff Bezos and good for me the reader who wants to participate in an informed forum.
Andrew and Amazon make the book purchase very easy thus he and the reader piggy back on Amazon's system and logistics. He is a book store that has all the power of Amazon behind it and they pay him! Remember how long it took to get that copy and how much it cost from you friendly local bookseller?
Let's go a bit deeper. Andrew's site is also like a book club. General Book clubs are OK for their owners but specialty book clubs - Military, Cooking etc - are exceptionally attractive. Lower overall volume but much more per member. Military buffs buy all the good books.
This takes George Dafermos's ideas of the power of collaborative filtering to the next level as well.
Maybe if Amazon is then a general book club - we can all then set up our own or join specialty clubs. Andrews is maybe too general right now. Anyone going to open a military club? Maybe I should? [Robert Paterson's Radio Weblog]
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