The Plashing Vole

Dear Jeff, you don't know me. Your company thinks it does: it once emailed with the header 'Amazon loves you', which made me f...

One of the problems with multinational online retailers' algorithms is that they've got no sense of humour. I use - when unavoidable...

I abandoned Amazon recently, because I didn't like quite a lot of the things they were doing, including pulling Wikileaks from their s...

American politicians have leaned on web hosts to boot Wikileaks off their servers: Amazon is the latest one to bow to their pressure, and Wi...

I use Amazon a lot, as there's only a Waterstone's in my town. Yet I really, strongly resent their automated recommendation e-mails,...

One of the delights of the digital world is the way corporations attempt to insinuate themselves into your consciousness as cuddly mates. I ...

I use Amazon a lot, and ABE all the time. Now I've found bananas.co.uk - the clearance page for The Book People - and bought 18 new boo...