Amazon, Stop Messing Around and Ship Hachette’s Books

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Amazon, Stop Messing Around and Ship Hachette’s Books
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Amazon is an amazing online retailer, capable of shipping products within 48 hours (or even less) from the moment you click "Buy **w with 1 Click." It’s a miracle of modern logistics and tech**logy.

So why, for one particular book publisher (Hachette), does Amazon appear to be using a horse and buggy for its deliveries? (http://mashable.com/2014/05/23/amazon-blocks-hachette/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

Could it be spite?

Under founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' leadership, Amazon has become the world’s most aggressive retailer. It gives ** quarter to any competitor and is always looking for ways to deliver products from its volumi**us catalog as soon as possible. The company is actually investigating how to intuit (http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/amazon-anticipatory-shipping-patent/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) in advance what products you’ll buy in the future, so Amazon can have e**ugh of that stuff at a nearby fulfillment center and delivered to you even faster. Bezos is so concerned with fast, cutting edge delivery that he even went on CBS’s 60 Minutes and unveiled a completely impractical drone delivery service (http://mashable.com/2013/12/01/amazon-unveils-flying-robot-delivery-drones/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/23/amazon-hachettes-books-op-ed/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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