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Yup, and they still feel the need to do it anyway, that's sort of person you find high up the management chain at Amazon...

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> and they still feel the need to do it anyway,

Or the Occam's Razor explanation that they weren't thinking about it at all, because customers who shop based on Independent Bookstore Day are a very different, negligibly small customer base who weren't going to be spending their money at Amazon anyway.

Looks like Amazon has been running a book sale once a year around spring.

From 2024: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-and-authors/amazon-bo...

I'm pretty sure C Suite and upper management took some under graduate courses at some point and all know about Occam's Razor. They probably hold meetings on how to use it to their advantage to continue to enrich the company.

Books are so irrelevant to Amazon at this point that this type of decision would never make it near the C suite or upper management.

Since it's not for economic benefit, what motivates such action?

First order effect: lose money. Second order effect: undercut independent book sellers, drive them out of business, win all the money.

World domination is often just about seeing a bit beyond the obviousness-horizon that otherwise limits us all.

Wasn't that already done for 20 years? If the remaining indie customers are not buying books from Amazon, as stated in the venn diagram comment at the top of this thread, they won't be affected by this sale.

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