Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Am Amazon Is a Platform, You Know?
Amazon is a digital intermediary where other parties can meet and do some kind of exchange or business. Being a platform gives certain inherent advantages m that perhaps the other distribution brands didn't have. There's network effects. The more people that come, the more people who want to buy and sell on your platform. And street thinks, oh, wow, there's this m unlimited potential for growth with this platform thing.
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