Thread: Amazon Defends Pedophile Book
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Old 11-11-2010, 03:09 PM   #170
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Originally Posted by JLeighs View Post
Financially, it was an incredibly stupid move on the part of Amazon to allow this book to be purchased for as long as they did.
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A lot of people will not be doing business with Amazon any longer. So from a business standpoint it was a bad idea to sell it.
The cynic in me says that they knew exactly what they were doing and they made a boat load of money from it. Even if it only sold a few thousand copies, a few thousand dollars profit in under a day for a single book is pretty good.
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