Thread: Waterstones (UK biggest bookseller) to sell Amazon's Kindle book reader
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Old 05-21-2012, 11:37 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
That is apparently what they're doing; setting up a website for Waterstone's customers to buy Kindle books.
What is your source of this statement? The press releases make no mention of that. It's not an unreasonable conjecture, but I don't see why Waterstones could not continue to sell ebooks as before (in ePub/PDF format). They would not want to force their customers to get Kindles.

There is a sort of precedent for this sort of arrangement between competitors: Books-A-Million sells Nook (exclusively?) yet they retain their own ebook store and iOS/Android apps.

I don't pretend to understand how either the Amazon/Waterstones or the B&N/BAM deals are mutually beneficial...but it must be so. Perhaps Waterstones will get a cut of any ebooks purchased on the Kindles they sell.
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