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Re: Read on Kindle

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On 9/10/2016 20:57, Michael Black wrote:

> Yes, I like the acknowledgement that Amazon is just a new generation of
> what came before.  The internet allows for some change , but it's just
> an incremental change from that old Sears catalog.  It really is still
> "mail order".
>
> I'm not sure how Amazon can ship for so little.  Or maybe why do more
> traditional outlets cost so much for shipping?  I am going to buy a book
> when it comes out in October, and I plan to get it from Amazon, because
> buying it from the publisher (they do "mail order" too) will cost a lot
> in terms of "shipping and handling".

I have a hunch (but have made NO effort to prove--being "bottom line" 
oriented--that the price of the item is low-balled, and the "shipping 
and handling: is padded to make up the profit.

I also suspect (and have made no effort to prove) that Amazon has 
contracts with "logistics" companies that five them low costs in the 
path.  I sometimes wonder if they have DCs we don't know about, and 
maybe warehouses (on FEDEX and UPS property?) stocked with currently 
popular items.
-- 
quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
-- Juvenal

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Read on Kindle RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-09-10 12:56 -0400
  Re: Read on Kindle Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-10 18:54 -0500
    Re: Read on Kindle Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-09-10 21:57 -0400
      Re: Read on Kindle Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-10 22:38 -0500
        Re: Read on Kindle Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-09-11 20:18 +0000
        Re: Read on Kindle Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-09-13 09:32 +0100
          Re: Read on Kindle Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 19:34 -0500
      Re: Read on Kindle Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-09-11 01:48 -0300
        Re: Read on Kindle Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2016-09-10 23:57 -0500
        Re: Read on Kindle scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-09-12 15:28 +0000
          USPS providing last-mile delivery for UPS and FedEx (was: Read on Kindle) "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> - 2016-09-12 17:50 +0000
      Re: Read on Kindle Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2016-09-13 05:57 +0000
        Re: Read on Kindle Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-09-13 07:10 +0000
          Re: Read on Kindle Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-09-13 10:08 +0000
            Re: Read on Kindle Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-09-13 10:21 +0000

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