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Originally Posted by rhadin
We know that Amazon took a loss on "some" ebooks because the numbers were publicly known. We do not know that Amazon still made an overall profit on ebooks because the numbers are not public. The assumption is that they made a profit but that is all it is
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As I recall we
do know that they made an overall profit on eBooks from the big five/six because it came out as part of discovery during the DOJ's case against the publishers and Apple. Just as part of the settlements is that all retailers can, for now, discount but must show an overall profit on each publishers titles.