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fjtorres · 02-08-2012, 04:55 PM

The Library and the Videos are sweeteners.
Like casinos comp-ing the big-time gamblers to luxury suites, etc.
It's Amazon's low-cost way of thanking their best customers. Which means the services don't even *need* to be competitive with anything.

Look at the math: the library pool runs $500,000 a month? That's 6 million a year or about a buck a month per member. They can easily double the pool and still come out way ahead.

It's really a pretty good deal all-around.

02-08-2012, 04:55 PM	#7
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	The Library and the Videos are sweeteners. Like casinos comp-ing the big-time gamblers to luxury suites, etc. It's Amazon's low-cost way of thanking their best customers. Which means the services don't even need to be competitive with anything. Look at the math: the library pool runs $500,000 a month? That's 6 million a year or about a buck a month per member. They can easily double the pool and still come out way ahead. It's really a pretty good deal all-around.