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Originally Posted by HarryT
Thanks for the links. Seems to be an incredibly short-sighted attitude. It appears to me that the likely consequence of them not stocking a book which Amazon sells is that the customer who wants it is going to buy it from Amazon.
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Complaining about a handful of exclusive titles, they gave Amazon exclusivity over a whole big chunk of the market:
If we look at the Author Earnings reports, what jumps out is that APub titles add up to less than 1% of the kindle catalog but account for 13% of Unit sales. That is a good chunk of change, in the hundreds of millions, that Amazon gets competition-free.
Self-defeating, leaving money on the table like that.
(You don't see Microsoft forgoing the hundreds of millions they make from Office for Mac just to punish Apple, do you? Money is money, wherever you can earn it.)
And that might just be part of the logic behind Amazon Books; some people won't go online to buy from Amazon? Well, maybe they'll go to the new store.
No customer left behind...
