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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Amazon is the direct beneficiary--they get a percentage of each sale. This is unlike ad revenue, where a third party pays them for the interaction that takes place between Content Poster and Viewer. In Amazon's case, they get direct payment for that interaction, from the people involved.
Hmm. I'll have to think about how this is similar to or different from eBay. (It may be identical to eBay, and eBay just gets less hassle because they don't allow direct download sales, and proving infringement on a physical medium is harder; someone else would have to buy the "disc of 100 ebooks" and arrange complaints from copyright holders first.)
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The big difference between eBay and Amazon is that the
seller pays eBay while the
buyer pays Amazon. EBay's direct profit comes from the listing rather than the sale, which puts them on different legal ground.