Podcasting “View A SKU”

A plan to turn Amazon into a dumb pipe.

Cory Doctorow

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A modified Amazon product listing page; the buy with Amazon button and Prime logo have been replaced with a “Buy from DIY Center” button a ‘Buy local’ logo with an upside-down Amazon smile logo, and the ‘In Stock’ wordmark has been replaced with ‘In stock at a local merchant: DIY Center.

This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, “View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe,” about how interop can help us demonopolize Amazon and tame its market power:

https://doctorow.medium.com/view-a-sku-32721d623aee

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