They come during a time when the number of Prime subscribers has been growing steadily for years. There was this Ringer piece on how to wean yourself off by using other online retailers, and a story from the tech site Gizmodo, which previously called Prime “ the best deal in tech,” calling for a Prime Day boycott. Sure, there are still the infinite roundups of Amazon’s best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals - which won’t be going anywhere as long as publishers are able to monetize them.īut what I haven’t seen as much prior to this year are media companies and people - largely New Yorkers who work for media companies and can afford to shop at the city’s many stores - encouraging people to cancel their subscriptions and openly discouraging readers from shopping at Amazon. I’ve covered Amazon for the past few years, but now something feels different.
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