This week on Tech’s Message:

• Amazon shutters Book Depository
• DPReview dies a death
• Virgin Media’s repeated outages
• Benefits of local fibre providers
• Are outages that problematic in a world of 5G and tethering?

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• Nate’s recent American cheese crisis
• Could Twitter Blue be temporarily worth subscribing to after all?
• Outtakes and much more…

Links:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/04/amazon-to-close-book-depository-online-shop

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/11/uk-book-sales-in-2021-highest-in-a-decade

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65042770

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/03/ofcom-raise-uk-automatic-compensation-payments-for-broadband-woes.html

https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1641976869460275201?s=61&t=c8S1KbsuCzuGdMGh9xoj7w

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