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Wal mart kindle12/20/2023 ![]() Shortly after Target decided it best to halt the sales of Amazon's Kindle products, it's being reported that Walmart is following suit. What do you think of this? Is Wal-Mart the hero for offering hardcover books at such discounted rates? Is Amazon wrong for matching its pricing? Let us hear your thoughts in the comments below.It's a lonely world when you've no storefronts to call your own. That might have been Wal-Mart's intention all along. It could stymie some of the Kindle's impressive growth. A loss on select titles might be worth it in the long run. Even so, Wal-Mart is a major retailer with loads of cash that it can easily put towards infiltrating a discount book market-electronic or otherwise. That said, the company told the Journal that its decision to drop the price of those major titles had nothing to do with the Kindle. ![]() Wal-Mart is, so far, on the outside looking in at the e-book market and the sale of highly anticipated hardcovers for $10 might reflect that. Quite the contrary, the retail giant might have chosen $10 because it's the same price Amazon is currently offering e-books for in its Kindle store. The discounter will lose $7 to $7.50 on every copy it sells." Wal-Mart might be able to afford that, but other, smaller retailers might not.īut $10 might not be a figure that Wal-Mart picked out of the air. "Assuming that's the case with Wal-Mart, its $10 sale price on 'Under theĭome' represents a 71 percent discount of the $35 cover price, which suggests "Retailers traditionally pay half the list price for a hardcover book," the Journal wrote in its report. ![]()
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