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Old 06-03-2008, 05:58 AM   #13
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I'm not following up. How can Amazon being loosing money, if they sell the ebooks at the same price as the paperbacks? Shouldn't they be having a wider margin profit? Or are hardcovers the big money makers?
I am not sure, but maybe it's related to the opportunity costs, assuming that e-books have a cannibalizing effect on sales of p-books. By selling e-books for less, Amazon is in effect giving away money that it could have earned by selling the equivalent p-books.
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