Amazon Gets Blow-Back Over Plan To Sell Kindles At Small Bookshops 176
Rambo Tribble writes "No sooner had Amazon revealed their plan to offer independent book shops the Kindle for re-sale, along with a kick-back on e-book purchases, than the fur began to fly. It appears the shops view the plan as Amazon-assisted suicide. Given the apparent terms of the deal, it looks like they may have a point. Amazon may well have done themselves more harm than good with this ploy. One storeowner wrote, 'Hmmm, let's see. We sell Kindles for essentially no profit, the new Kindle customer is in our store where they can browse and discover books, the new Kindle customer can then check the price on Amazon and order the e-book. We make a little on their e-book purchases, but then lose them as a customer completely after two years. Doesn't sound like such a great partnership to me.'"
I've seen this movie... (Score:5, Funny)
Meg Ryan falls in love with Jeff Bezos at the end.
Re:May as well get SOME money (Score:2, Funny)
Totally. Just the other day I kicked over some whore, pissed on her and then threw a couple of bucks at her. And that bitch had the audacity to complain! So I told her "What do you have to complain about, bitch? You got some money out of this".
Re:Amazon Bookstore (Score:2, Funny)
There was a bit of a tussle between them and Amazon.com
Were they sentenced to death by snu-snu?