Re: None of Amazon's business
"then you do a deal with the publisher for buying their products off them. If you don't think you can make a profit, then don't buy the books (e-books or otherwise); otherwise charge whatever you feel is right for you. That's how it works in other retail businesses."
No, it's not. It might be how it works in small, local retail, but that's not how the big boys play. The big boys tell the suppliers to give them a good deal or they won't play with them anymore.
See thos BOGOF offers in the supermarket? The advertising implies that the supermarket is doing you, the customer a favour. Maybe they are. But the supermarket isn't taking the hit. The supplier gets told to come up with the deal or their product is no longer stocked, or gets relegated to top or bottom shelf instead of the prime "eye-level" shelf. And the big retailers know all too well how to play off the suppliers againsts each other, not hitting any one supplier too hard or too often.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
