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Re: Read on Kindle

From	Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Read on Kindle
Date	2016-09-13 19:34 -0500
Organization	Yeah, right.
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On 9/13/2016 03:32, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

> 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 ...

Really?  I've never really studied the matter, but it seems to me that 
anybody with an old-fashioned notion of how to build a business (does 
NOT involve cashing out the profits at the end of every quarter) can 
(and I think there others that do) reinvest and expand the capital into 
areas apart from the initial effort.

They used to call it "diversification".  When "diversity" meant something.

-- 
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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