Amazon's Special Thank-You 175
theodp writes "To commemorate its 10th Anniversary, Amazon.com announced that on July 16th customers will receive a special thank-you - a concert featuring Bob Dylan and Norah Jones. Of course, customers will be squinting at streaming video while Amazon employees actually attend the concert at Seattle's Benaroya Hall, but isn't it the thought that counts?"
Re:Amazon? (Score:3, Informative)
Some sites embed it in their own pages (like this [tyco.com]) and others just point to the remote URL, (like this [corporate-ir.net]). Obviously, Amazon has done the latter.
Yes, but.... (Score:2, Informative)
Streaming a video, on the other hand, only costs them about $50 in bandwidth.
Re:How do they afford this? (Score:1, Informative)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN&annual [yahoo.com]
SImple answer, if you really want to help locals. (Score:3, Informative)
"Hey, can you order title X,yan z for me?"
BOokstores are 90% of the time willing to order books they dont have in stock for you, espscially the smaller ones. Yeah, its not gonna beat amazon on price or speed, but at least youre helping out someone besides a faceless corporation.