If you’re considering ponying up for Amazon Prime, don’t. It’s a waste of money and a complete rip-off. Early yesterday morning I ordered two textbooks that I needed immediately for my thesis research and ponied up the extra $4.95 a book for Saturday delivery. Today I get an email saying that they shipped today and I’ll get them on Monday.
What the hell? If I didn’t need them on Saturday, I wouldn’t have ordered them for Saturday delivery.
Amazon.com has clearly grown to the point where they no longer feel obligated to deliver anything approximating even decent customer service. This is a clear message that they don’t need our money. From here on out, I’m using Powell’s.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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