Thread: WTF do publishers think they're doing ?
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Old 02-17-2011, 10:45 AM   #71
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
What form of citation? The link isn't enough?
They are doing it right now.
They wouldn't be doing it if they didn't see some kind of payoff.
(That is the well-established Amazon M.O.; find under-served markets and make money pennies at a time. Online book sales, walled-garden ebook readers, diapers... )
1. Kindle isn't a walled-garden
2. No, a link showing that Amazon does something does not prove it's profitable. It may indeed have "some kind of payoff" (logically, this would have to be true, or Amazon should not be doing it), but that does not prove profitability. Amazon was renowned for having (pre-Agency pricing) $9.99 best seller ebooks as loss leaders.
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