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Originally Posted by pwalker8

Well that was fairly absurd. You do understand that Amazon paid the publisher for each ebook they sold don't you? There is indeed cost involved. When Amazon sells an ebook for less than they pay the publisher, then they sell it at a loss. As for the rest, all I can say is whatever dude, if you don't want to admit you didn't bother reading what I wrote before spouting off, fine.

You are trying to compare apples to oranges -- a typical tactic of spin doctors.

I was discussing Hachette's products, which cost nothing for them to make and therefore everything is profit for them. Amazon does indeed have overhead (since they are not selling something that costs nothing to produce, they are selling something that costs money to buy from the publisher) -- and that is a problem for Amazon, so Hachette is all good anyways, mmmkay?

You also seem to have decided I "didn't bother reading what [you] wrote before spouting off" despite the fact that I extensively used and reworded what you said in my response -- while I may have been flippant and rejective of everything you said, one certainly cannot deny that I clearly did read it...

Perhaps you didn't read what I wrote? since the only thing you have to say about it is the equivalent of "yeah, whatever you said is wrong".

Originally Posted by ApK -- Latest Reputation Received

Thanks! Wonder if we'll wear him down before Amazon and Hachette come to an agreement. :-)

Probably not. (This is Apple all over again; I'm noticing a trend here...)