Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
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A New Kind of Distribution Brand
Yebit: The first chapter is titled a new kind of distribution brand. It ends by making this interesting distinction between digital capitalism and platform capitalism. Yebit: This was an idea that emerged as i was working through what, if anything, was distinctive about amazon at the distribution brand. He compared it to the seers and the walmarts and the u p ss of the world.
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