Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.

We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.

The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.

I welcome Microsoft having a store on Windows; what I've always resisted was a push to close down Windows to competing stores.

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

Art.com is a fantastic opportunity to move into the consumer space, as we have the content and now we have the means to go to the consumer and sell to them directly.

The real great news is, in the piracy capitals of the world, Netflix is winning. We are pushing down piracy in those markets by getting the access.

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the app store, and now we know that from publishing.

As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

I really think the app store is kind of the killer app for Apple and for Google.

Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no.

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.