- On this cold night in January we finally figured out whether Amazon is a good thing or not!I I can’t believe you weren’t there, at the Kaufman Center on West 67th Street in New York City, where, following a cash bar reception, Intelligence Squared U.S. brought together four men of similar age (~55?) to decide whether “Amazon is the reader’s friend.” They were: Author Joe Konrath, Vox editor Matt Yglesias, novelist and former Authors Guild president Scott Turow and former New Republic editor Franklin Foer. Two of them were on one side, and two of them were on the other.
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