Amazon’s Fuzzy Math

Curt Woodward:

Calling bull on Amazon is the right approach. But honestly, at some point we should all link arms and decide to just stop shoveling the company’s weird brand of number-crunching into people’s news feeds altogether, because maybe it would stop them.

Amazon wants to have it both ways: they won’t release any actual numbers in the interests of competitive secrecy, but they still want to brag.

★ Thursday, 30 August 2012