Thread: Amazon applying for in-book advertisement patent for Kindle
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Old 07-06-2009, 11:59 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by emellaich View Post
Well, if you get technical. Amazon is a typical retailer: their net profit margin was only 3.4% in 2008 ( http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN ). If they are heavily subsidizing ebooks to get to the 9.99 price that certainly isn't helping their profits.
Their little shenanigans of big-arm tactics aren't helping their sales or profit-margins any.

Blocking someones kindle-book access due to non-books related returns, abilities to go into your device and delete stuff. They are losing sales, so they try and find a way to get some of those profits back via ads.

I only assume they are losing sales. Negative publicity always makes people think twice. I used to not want a Kindle due to how it looks, now I'll never get a Kindle due to Big Brother syndrome.
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