Comment Re:No, wait, do-over! (Score 2) 95
You'll feel relieved, then, to know that modern atypical antipsychotics work much better, and with far fewer side effects, than the old-school phenothiazines.
Of course Google gets something out of the relationship. Google exists to make money. They don't, however, sell news. They don't sell content. They sell us. And in that regard, Google really doesn't care in the least if the newspapers decide to play ball or give up the single best source of eyeballs from across the globe they've ever known - Google can simply filter them out and only the newspapers themselves will even notice the loss.
But I no longer have as many bookstores I can go to, to look at books, find something I might not have picked before, have a coffee, talk to real people.
Amazon doesn't sell friends (you need to go to Facebook for that). Amazon sells stuff.