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Originally Posted by Fbone
Amazon has a warehouse a few miles away from Hachette's. I'm sure that's not a coincidence. It also doesn't explain the 3-4 week delivery "delays" to receive Hachette titles.
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I wasn't trying to explain the delays. Only trying to point out that Amazon's "wholesale" purchasing/reselling of physical books (with a BPH they have a contract with) is no different than the purchasing/reselling of BPH ebooks (sans agency). Neither involves paying for a certain sized "lot" of products and then buying another lot when that one is all sold. BPHs puts a crap-ton of books in Amazon's warehouses and let them sell them pretty-much any way they see fit. And up until agency, ebooks worked pretty much the same way. Any difference in "models" was semantic-only.
They don't seem to care how much Amazon discounts their "bread & butter" (hardcovers by their own admission). They only care that cheap ebooks make their bread & butter look less attractive to consumers. And rather than actually come up with a REAL plan for the eventual--and
inevitable--demise of their current business model, they'd rather stall by inflating the price of ebooks in hopes that someone--
anyone--comes along, slays the dragon for them, and allows them to eke out a little more time with their outdated business model and bloated infrastructure (which is still doomed even if Amazon closes its doors tomorrow).