Jim Lipsey

I was on the fence regarding the wisdom of Amazon selling groceries. But there is little doubt regarding their new video download service, dubbed unbox. It’s positively bone-headed.
For $13.95 you can download a copy of Office Space (a terrific movie). This file can exist on at most two computer and comes with no [...]

I’m a big fan of Amazon.com, having been a customer since Jeff Bezos sold books out of his closet1. They pioneered a lot in the early days of online commerce, including publishing customer reviews of individual products. The availability of unflinching feedback for every item Amazon sells proved to add more value to their [...]