How Amazon has changed our lives and it is changed forever
I have been shopping from Amazon for books since Amazon existed, however, there seems to be some order processing problems at Amazon recently, the book I ordered will not arrive prior my trip to Asia. In order to avoid me bored to death on the long flight to HongKong, I canvassed all the local book stores after work today, from borders to barnes&noble, even a local no-name boutique book store.
The computer book sections there are just so laughable, I would be ashamed if any friends or colleagues spotted me flipping through them. The bookstore curators know absolutely nothing about computers, for sure. After a few hours of hunting, I had to give in and picked up "MySQL Administrators", which is such an ill-fitted book that I wouldn't even blink my eyes before pass-on it if I were shopping on Amazon.
The clerk was very nice, who had an old fashioned hair style, asked me five questions and heard five straight "no"s from me before totally gave up and ringed the register. I had to admit, I was slightly impolite and annoyed...sorry...He was smiling at me all those times...however...Why would I want to join a book club when I couldn't even find the right book? Why would I be interested to 15% discount for a card when I know I would never use it again?? Sometimes, good customer service doesn't count, good content does. Work on your content first.
How could those stores compete with Amazon? They should just go away, like the newspaper industry, or, at least, the computer book section should just be eliminated, full of dummies, nothing worth reading. I do sound mean, I know. I think I am not a mean person for the most part - If you don't agree, don't leave your comment here please 
I feel I am entitled for a little bit ranting after wasting hours of my time, failed to find the book I wanted, couldn't even find anything close to what I was looking for...
I feel I am entitled for a little bit ranting after wasting hours of my time, failed to find the book I wanted, couldn't even find anything close to what I was looking for...I still vaguely remember, when I was a kid, going to the only bookstore existed in Beijing with my dad during weekends, spent the day there were the happiest days in my life. Twenty years later, I couldn't imagine what my life would be without Amazon, I hated the book stores that I just set my feet in.
There are companies and technologies changed people's lives forever, Amazon is one of them - Jeff Bezos should thank me for saying this I, secretly hope, years later, there will be someone somewhere saying FreeWheel is one of those companies too.
I, secretly hope, years later, there will be someone somewhere saying FreeWheel is one of those companies too. 
Posted by Diane at 5/20/2009 11:55 AM 
Categories: my life,Random Thoughts
Tags: California Amazon books
Categories: my life,Random Thoughts
Tags: California Amazon books
And guess what, the book I ordered from Amazon just arrived!!! Yah! Max told me that Jeff at Amazon probably heard my complain
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Sometimes it's still nice experiences to wander in a bookshop and look through books such as travel books/novels/albums. Computer books are just a certain field that bookshops don't make sense here, especially for IT geeks.
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I don't go to bookstores anymore. I order my books now at Amazon.
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Kindle is the solution. It is slick and does not have book/magazine delivery problem.
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Hmmm. Wonderful!
I am a Sr. SDE in Amazon China, I believe you know S3 or EC2 in Amazon. and I wonder to know do you(FreeWheel) have a similar distribute sysmtem for your Ad enginee? I believe FreeWheel will get a bulk data in the recently years.
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