Thread: Amazon vs. Hachette Update - It's About Price
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Old 08-01-2014, 02:58 PM   #124
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Originally Posted by ApK View Post
Time out:
When you said:

you were referring to AMAZON taking a loss? You really did mean "at a loss to Amazon."
Because that reads like you meant it would be a losing proposition for them to "sell their books to Amazon at loss."
You consider Amazon paying Hachette, and then choosing to take a loss themselves, if they actually chose to do so, to be a losing proposition for Hachette?
Despite the fact that Amazon's previous loss-leader efforts had resulted in the biggest growth the industry has every seen?

You've lost me.
No, you understood him correctly the first time.

Now he's just spreading FUD to cover his own confusion (about how he can possibly reconcile his Amazon Belief System with reality).
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