Is Amazon a Hero or Monster?

16 January 2015
Lloyd Grove

A passionate New York debate interrogates Amazon’s dominance in the book market’is it delivering well-priced books efficiently, or a greedy, rapacious behemoth?

What is the true nature of Amazon. com’the online retailing colossus that, like a massive corporate python, has swallowed up the book industry virtually whole?

In terms of cognitive dissonance, it would be difficult to match Thursday night’s Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. debate on the proposition, ‘Amazon Is The Reader’s Friend.