Also, in a minor way, trust. My ebooks can be bought on Gumroad. Yet, many readers purchase them on Amazon because they trust Amazon but not Gumroad (even those who don't own Kindle; some message me specifically asking if I sell on Amazon bc they don't trust that unknown website)
This is wrong. The network effect of sellers and prime customers is more powerful. For most if not all of our products we could have cheap 2-day prime by negotiating with carriers if we had the sales volume.https://twitter.com/modestproposal1/status/1146404882313895937 …
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Amazon is a lollapalooza of competitive advantages: 1. trust 2. network effects 3. scale 4. technology 5. vertical integration 6. stickiness (prime) 7. brand I could keep going
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Amazon’s largest advantage is and has always been lobbying and regulatory arbitrage. Tax payers have been subsidising their business for years in numerous ways.
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Not largest but definitely a big one
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In many EU counties the Amazon bran is “eCommerce” people don’t trust other websites. It’s shop local (physical) or shop online (Amazon)
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