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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
At the risk of my head being piled up beneath a truckload of calumny ..... is this the first time Amazon have simply bought out a competitor and blatently asset-stripped it like this ?
With a main difference to the "normal" practice - that of not selling off a part of the operation, but just shutting it down to reduce competition ?
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Yep, that's what it looks like Carpetmojo doesn't it, asset stripping in the ebook arena.
Whilst it can be said that Book Dep didn't have a large ebook section (yet) that was probably due to a number of factors, which must include that for some time period prior to Amazon's take over the management must have been waiting and watching and not creating business opportunities.
Amazon leave me cold ..... they don't have a dedicated Aus site - instead Australians are expected to buy their Amazon products in USD unaware of the exchange rate that will be used because the amount is advertised, calculated and paid for in USD on the screen and at some later time that is invisible to the consumer the amount is converted by an undisplayed exchange rate into Aus $.
It is the Aus $ rate that then shows on your credit card bill.
As a business practice that sucks.
And of course with that kind of sales ethos they don't get my custom.
