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David Rosenthal: belief

16 Aug 2022 Acquired Amazon.com

“I think the suit is like, well, you don't have a store, you can't go select the books.”

— David Rosenthal

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Speaker
David Rosenthal
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
16 Aug 2022
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Amazon.com

Transcript context

…In case there was any confusion. In case there's any confusion about what the intent of this is, and that they're going to kill Amazon with the new barnesandnoble.com. The other thing they do is sue Amazon. They conveniently for them (or inconveniently for Amazon) announced the lawsuit three days before the IPO prices, hence the Amazon.toast memo. They sued them for, Ben, what you said of Amazon claiming to have earth's largest selection of books. I think the suit is like, well, you don't have a store, you can't go select the books. That's so pedantic and annoying.…

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