Big Tech Destroyed the Bookshop. But Never Fear, Big Tech Is Reinventing the Bookshop!
Some people even had “jobs” writing these books! But one day, an evil creature called “Amazon” came along, led on a leash by a strange little man named “Jeff Bezos.” Amazon ate all the books and smashed all the bookshops, and soon it grew so big and strong that it blotted out the sun, and everybody died—except for “Jeff Bezos”, who went to space. But then an evil creature came and destroyed your workplace?
- ▪Some people even had “jobs” writing these books!
- ▪But one day, an evil creature called “Amazon” came along, led on a leash by a strange little man named “Jeff Bezos.” Amazon ate all the books and smashed all the bookshops, and soon it grew so big and strong that it blotted out the sun, and
- ▪But then an evil creature came and destroyed your workplace?
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| Original publisher | Gizmodo |
| Canonical URL | https://gizmodo.com/big-tech-destroyed-the-bookshop-but-never-fear-big-tech-is-reinventing-the-bookshop-2000809822 |
| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:45:08 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-11T13:17:42.908Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-11T13:17:42.908Z |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Gather round, people. I’m going to tell you a story. Once upon a time, long, long ago, in “the 20th century,” there was a magical world called “the world.” In this world, many people had occupations called “jobs.” Some of them did these jobs in places called “bookshops”, where they sold things called “books” to other people.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000809822","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"culture","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"culture","TAGS":"airbnb,amazon,books,bookshops","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Books were magical things because they had stories in them, and…
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