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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yes. It's called basket pricing, as has been mentioned many times. A perfectly legal and non-nefarious practice for anybody except for Amazon, apparently. I also find it hard to believe that Amazon was paying more than mere pennies above $9.99 for those ebooks.
I certainly do. Any blanket claims of "losing money" without mentioning the fact that they were talking about pennies on particular titles (and that their ebook business always operated in the black on the whole) is misleading at best. So yeah... I find any notion that "Amazon's 'lose money to buy up market share' campaign" is the same thing as "Amazon was selling 'certain' new releases and best sellers at a price that 'roughly matched,' or was slightly lower than, the wholesale price it paid to the publishers..." to be a huge shift. And disingenuous to boot.
But if you want to say "losing money" and "flirting with no margin on limited items" is the same thing. Have at it.
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Now who is moving the goal post. We go from Leebase's statement that Amazon was losing money on $9.99 eBooks and you saying that Amazon was not losing money on $9.99 eBooks to Well, it's not illegal except apparently for Amazon.