That great indie slayer, Amazon.com, has been down this afternoon — leaving customers and journalists scratching their heads. From Dow Jones, via CNN:
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Amazon.com’s (AMZN) Web site appeared to down early Friday afternoon.
Several Dow Jones employees in various locations were unable to call up the site.
Attempts to contact Amazon weren’t immediately successful.
Internet site www.theflyonthewall.com told its subscribers of the outage earlier Friday afternoon. Tech-focused blogs were also discussing the outage.
Of course, even my website, Baristanet, has been crippled from time to time by spam attacks, but you’d think Amazon would have double, triple, quadruple redundancy. Just a cyberglitch? Or perhaps an unhappy independent bookseller with some hacking know-how?
Meanwhile, if you have an urgent need for a book, you might just have to go to a local bookstore. In fact, you might just find you get it faster that way. How novel!
UPDATE: At 4 pm, I was able to access Amazon.
3 responses so far ↓
Robin Carey // June 7, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Debbie, Great topic. Did you take that religion course at UVA which studied Mircea Eliade’s book The Sacred and the Profane? I kept it for years because of his stuff on the sacredness of place. It wasn’t until years later that I learned he was a fascist sympathizer.
debragalant // June 7, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Well, I suppose even fascist sympathizers have their nice sides. Sounds like an interesting book.
camille rare books // December 11, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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