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The speaker is saying that Amazon’s main purpose is business, not supporting art or literature for their own sake. The wording pushes back against any expectation that a corporation should act like a patron of culture. It also suggests skepticism about corporate motives when it comes to creative work.
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Originally said in English.
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About Nick Harkaway
British novelist and commentator
Nick Harkaway, born Nicholas Cornwell, is a British novelist and commentator. He is known for writing under the name Nick Harkaway, and has 132 quotes on the site. Under that name, he wrote the novels The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker, Tigerman, Gnomon, Titanium Noir, and Karla's Choice, as well as the non-fiction study The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Aidan Truhen.
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