[omeze]

For Amazon, it was actually about vastly expanded inventory. It was often hard to find books if you didn't live near a large retail book chain. I remember having trouble in high school finding some english class books driving around the suburbs.

[disgruntledphd2]

Yeah I have been a customer of Amazon for over twenty years because of this. I used to spend time looking through microfilm catalogues of my local bookshop before Amazon and it's super nice to not have to do that anymore.