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Re: Read on Kindle

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On 11/09/16 04:38, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> 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.

Amazon also largely offsets their store running costs using the profits 
made from selling use of their AWS web platform to other businesses.

No one else, apart from maybe oil sheiks, has that source of subsidy ...

-- 
Adrian C

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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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