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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Authors stoop to a new low by complaining about Amazon doing something that cut their sales in half? You and I have very different ideas about who stooped to the new low in that situation. Kind of funny given that prior to that, the narrative about Amazon was that they really cared about the authors. Don't hear that narrative much anymore.
Amazon is a large corporation that cares about it's profits, just like those nasty publishers. Bezos is on record for using the Walmart model of business which involves a focus on cost reduction techniques such as squeezing suppliers. It was very successful for Walmart and has been very successful for Amazon. It's made Bezos the richest man in the world.
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Hmmm...Is Amazon really squeezing suppliers like Walmart does? In what way? When you say "suppliers" are you talking about the ones who sell on Amazon and store their product in Amazon's warehouses; or the ones who sell on Amazon and ship directly from their own warehouses; or the ones who sell products to Amazon at wholesale prices, and Amazon then sells at retail?
Shari