Among the raging hordes who set aside all facts and reason to bash Amazon in what I can only guess is a spooked panic about the retailer’s size (something that concerns me, too, but not to the point of losing my mind) there is a prevalent slander, which was recently repeated by Cosmin Gheorghe at the ever-flowing spring of spin that is the Huffington Post:
Amazon considers books a commodity, like cars or computers: an object that has no other inherent value, but only the value dictated by how often it is demanded or offered by the majority of us, i.e., the market.
This statement is moronic on two fronts.