”Her sentences were icebergs, with just the tip of her thought coming out of her mouth, and the rest kept up in her head, which I was starting to think was more and more beautiful the longer I looked at her.

Gregory Galloway, As Simple As Snow (via nc-17)

(Source: kitty-en-classe)

”If I were Amazon I’d be selling the hardware, not the content.

Shaun Rein, the managing director of China Market Research Group, speaking to Bloomberg.

It’s interesting just how poorly Amazon is doing in China. This can be seen two ways: either they’re being out-Amazon’d there by Alibaba and will never be able to crack the country (just as eBay couldn’t). Or the massive upside if they are able to crack China eventually.

But, as Rein’s quote indicates, Amazon may have to flip its content-driven model. It’s hard to subsidize hardware with content sales when people refuse to pay for content.

Does Amazon’s content stack up with the content that it offers for the US?