Amazon's not making a profit on Harry Potter?

[icarus]

Amazon.com tells its shareholders it's not going to make a profit on the next Harry Potter book.

With their steep discounts, guaranteed delivery and free shipping, they're not going to make a profit on the biggest thing to hit publishing in the last ten years?

Good lord. These guys are as stupid as when I worked for them almost a decade ago. But hey, they are "cementing customer loyalty."

Hello? Customers will be just as loyal if you make a profit.



(Knowing them they just miscalculated the costs and now are trying to cover their collective asses. The place is run by teenagers.)


ETA: In other news, now have 838 more words of Out Of Bounds. And counting.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

It's the only office I've ever worked that was so disorganized, they had a term for sitting and doing nothing while they got their acts together. It was called "camping out."

[aerynvala.livejournal.com]

*snort* that's pretty bad if they actually had it happen often enough to make a term up for it :)