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Originally Posted by murraypaul
How does selling eBooks help their pBook business?
There is really no synergy between the two businesses.
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B&N certainly hasn't demonstrated any effective synergy. Though their idea of synergy has long been...odd...
On the other hand Kobo's business model of partnering with local bookstores and sharing ebook revenue seems to show *some* benefits. Amazon copied it with Waterstones and they are *rumored* to be reaching out to select indie bookstores (might be aprocryphal, though; the source being an Amazon hater casts some doubt on the claims of outreach).
I suspect that if ebook readers weren't sold at near cost there might be more room for revenue sharing and synergy.