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Old 05-16-2011, 02:29 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
Are you going to literally "bet your business" that your customers will abandon where they normally go to buy your books, to go somewhere else (which they may not know where it is).
Who would have thought they'd disrupt the normal order of business to institute agency pricing in the first place?

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It's betting the business, because once you cut off Amazon, et. al., there goes all the cashflow from sales. No cashflow, no business. (Lots of cashflow, but losing money on every sale - go broke slowly. No cashflow, even on profitable sales - go broke very, very fast).
So perhaps they just open up their alternate site with the lower "pay no middleman here" prices.

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