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Originally Posted by Crowl
At this point, amazon's main concern is market share, they won't mind losing a bit of money on bestsellers since each book somebody buys makes them that much less likely to change to a different make of reader.
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With the Kindle app for the iPhone, and the one announced for Windows, they may not care about that, either. Amazon wants to sell ebooks. It's a perfect fit for them, because they were already the dominant retailer in paper books, and had the catalog and order processing infrastructure in place. With ebooks, they can use what they already have, but
don't have warehousing and distribution costs.
I think they are making money on the Kindle, but I think it's really about the books and not the ereader hardware.
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Dennis