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Old 03-05-2009, 12:05 PM   #54
GeoffC
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Originally Posted by mjh215 View Post
Maybe I'm a cynic but I don't think this will bode well. I can just see B&N closing Fictionwise in 6 months after deeming it unprofitable. While retaining all the rights to Fictionwise. And making a deal to leave the site accessible for current customers to get backups of their purchases for 1 year.

I should get a kitten or something...

-MJ
it's an expensive option to pay all that cash and then close them down when they have no alternative (?) etailer subsiduary ... whilst for Amazon ....(see below)....

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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
The only reason Amazon would have bought them would have been to kill them. They do not represent Amazon's business model.

Dale

Quite .... Amazon, by way of the Kindle, have a 'captive' audience (even if it doesn't include most of the world) ... what better way to maintain that, but to drive out/or buy the competition - they may have considered the price worth it ?

(I used to like Amazon.co.uk - until they (badly) let me down).
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