{"id":14760,"date":"2011-04-15T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=14760"},"modified":"2011-04-15T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:02:19","slug":"amazon-bloopers-the-end-of-printed-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/15\/amazon-bloopers-the-end-of-printed-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Bloopers : The end of printed media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>: before you read any further, I want to you know that’s it nothing more than an obvious bug in a very large and complex system called Amazon. \u00a0A friend just pointed it out to me while it was happening. \u00a0And not just somewhere, but in my own Amazon Wishlist!<\/em><\/p>\n

Amazon is one of the largest online shops, if not the largest. \u00a0And while they do sell a large variety of products, they started as and they will always be a book shop. \u00a0Back when they started, digital books, even though existed, were more of a distant future dream. \u00a0These days they are a reality. \u00a0But given that printed and digital books co-exist in the same world, how do they affect each other? \u00a0One way to look at that would be to compare prices for the same books in printed versus digital formats. \u00a0Here is an example: A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web | Five Simple Steps<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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You can buy this book<\/a> in several digital formats for as low as 12 British Pounds (GBP). \u00a0How much money would you have to part with if you insisted on the version with nostalgic smell of printed pages and no search functionality? \u00a0According to the Amazon<\/a> itself, you’d have to pay up \u00a0815.74 GBP!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With prices like that, I think we can safely assume that the era of printed media is over. \u00a0All hail digital!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Disclaimer: before you read any further, I want to you know that’s it nothing more than an obvious bug in a very large and complex system called Amazon. \u00a0A friend just pointed it out to me while it was happening. \u00a0And not just somewhere, but in my own Amazon Wishlist! Amazon is one of the … Continue reading Amazon Bloopers : The end of printed media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2294,62],"tags":[42,2806,2418,1157],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-14760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-books","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-bloopers","tag-humor","tag-web-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26983,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/27\/top-29-books-on-amazon-from-hacker-news-comments\/","url_meta":{"origin":14760,"position":0},"title":"Top 29 books on Amazon from Hacker News comments","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across this nice visualization of \"Top 29 books ranked by unique users linking to Amazon in Hacker News comments\". 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