Thread: Amazon's upsetting the publishers again
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Old 04-30-2012, 08:22 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by sabredog View Post
Postage is a killer for Amazon. I find eBay to be cheaper postage wise than either ABE or Amazon. I purchased my first book online from Amazon around 1999.
You wouldn't think so if you lived in the beautiful Sandwich Isles, I just got an order from Amazon, and the shipping and handling was just a bit under ten bucks US. The price of a USPS flat rate carton is about five dollars. So where did the other five dollars go? Yeah, I know; handling!
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