Buy now : how Amazon branded convenience and normalized monopoly /

Buy now : how Amazon branded convenience and normalized monopoly /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	West, Emily, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2022] ©2022
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Distribution matters Distribution matters.
Subject:	Amazon.com (Firm) Amazon.com (Firm) Electronic commerce. Retail trade. Electronic commerce. Retail trade. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13458382

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ISBN:	9780262368391 0262368390 9780262368384 0262368382 9780262543309 0262543303
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"An in-depth analysis of Amazon as a ubiquitous brand that has decisively shaped retail, both online and off, and normalized monpoly"--
Other form:	Print version: West, Emily. Buy now. Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2022] 9780262543309

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Buy now--the branding of convenience
A new kind of distribution brand
The box: distribution fetishism and the materialities of ecommerce
From bookseller to behemoth: the platformization of retail
Speak for service: Alexa, surveillance, and automated intimacy
Watch now: ubiquitous media and the commoditization of culture
Amazon.amazon: normalizing monopoly
American ubiquity: Amazon's platform imperialism
Conclusion: Confronting the costs of convenience,