Amazon: in for the long game

I am a big fan of Amazon and have been supporting them from the start. Have a large Kindle library already and buys on average four Kindle books from them per month. Desperately want the new paperwhite Kindle but Amazon won't sell it to me yet ... :banghead:
 
The new Kindles are highly impressive, but nobody is actually even sure what their business model is. They aren't making any more profit year on year than they ever were. Their financial announcements are totally vague - (Kindle Fire has 20% of the tablet market - what does that even mean and can they prove it?) They are a good company but unless we can see their hand I'm still very doubtful of the impact they're really having except to disrupt for the sake of disruption.
 
cerebus said:
The new Kindles are highly impressive, but nobody is actually even sure what their business model is. They aren't making any more profit year on year than they ever were. Their financial announcements are totally vague - (Kindle Fire has 20% of the tablet market - what does that even mean and can they prove it?) They are a good company but unless we can see their hand I'm still very doubtful of the impact they're really having except to disrupt for the sake of disruption.
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They want to make money selling content. And as to profits they did say the reason for the latest profit was a slow down in the economy.
 
R13... said:
They want to make money selling content. And as to profits they did say the reason for the latest profit was a slow down in the economy.
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I do get that, Bezos has made it pretty clear. But still their profits have remained stagnant for years now, even seen some decline. It's just an odd sort of strategy.
 
cerebus said:
I do get that, Bezos has made it pretty clear. But still their profits have remained stagnant for years now, even seen some decline. It's just an odd sort of strategy.
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The advent of the app store has pushed them into a corner. The only way you get sales from the growing world of mobile devices is on your own device. I think this model is flawed and stifles competition.
 
Why the article says "long game". They want to be the digital version of WallMart with the device the digital warehouse. You dont pay access fees to shop at Makro so you should not pay to enter Amazon's digital warehouse ... but a device is needed and that they sell at cost so that as many shoppers as possible have access to their wares. I wish we in SA could also shop for all the other stuff Amazon sells. One place for everything ... delivered in four days to my door in SA. This model will take a long time to build momentum but the sort of momentum such business do develop is very hard to stop or slow down once it's going.

For me the new paperwhite Kindle with backlight is a fantastic solution and Amazon patented the tech. I MUST get one. Reading on a tablet is just not the same for me. A device with a two month battery life is amazing for serial readers like me.
 
BeVonk! said:
Why the article says "long game". They want to be the digital version of WallMart with the device the digital warehouse. You dont pay access fees to shop at Makro so you should not pay to enter Amazon's digital warehouse ... but a device is needed and that they sell at cost so that as many shoppers as possible have access to their wares.
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The Kindle / Fire allows the user direct access to Amazon, making purchasing - from Amazon - that much easier.

Think of Amazon as a vending machine, with the Kindle/Fire as the selection mechanism :)
 
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