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Amazon owns the following companies selling books:

- AbeBooks (acquired by Amazon in 2008)

- Book Depository (acquired by Amazon in 2011)

These companies don't appeared to have changed dramatically from when Amazon bought them. I wonder if these companies operate 'independently' without too much undue influence from Amazon?

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Counter-point: Amazon bought Mobipocket in 2005, the guys who created the MOBI e-book format, turned the mobi format into their AZW format for Kindle books, then shut Mobipocket down.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobipocket

You left out Amazing acquiring IMDB in 1998! Hasn't changed much since then. Likewise woot.com in 2010.

woot.com is not a good example of company culture staying good. The employees got so fed up, they left and started meh.com, which seems to be just “woot.com again.”

In more recent years, someone within the Amazon org chart ruined Box Office Mojo for IMDB. The shutting down of the forums seemed unnecessary too. Both seem to have been done to push IMDB as a more professional site for sales.

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