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The article suggest that the Kindle business is a big money-loser so far? That surprised me. Why it should be a money-loser, when the Kindle itself is rather ex
by greyman 17y ago
The article suggest that the Kindle business is a big money-loser so far? That surprised me. Why it should be a money-loser, when the Kindle itself is rather expensive and the e-book copies cost virtually nothing(?)
- gchucky 17y agoThere was an article a few months back that stated that Amazon loses $2 for each book sold on Kindle. Publishers won't sell e-books for less than the publishing price. http://www.tbiresearch.com/e-readers-should-drive-profits-for-both-distributors-and-book-publishers-2009-11 http://www.tbiresearch.com/e-readers-should-drive-profits-fo... is the original document, as far as I can find right now.
- etherael 17y agoIs this genuinely a case of "We have commercial control of a lot of physical book manufacturing commodities and in order to leverage the value of these commodities we want to artificially inflate the price of the competition"? That... seems... well, it doesn't taste good, let's put it that way.