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Two books about selling on Amazon that everybody should take a look at. The first is Steve Weber’s “The Home Based Bookstore”, which describes in detail the art of selling through Amazon Marketplace. The second is Aaron Shepard’s “Aiming at Amazon” a publishing business plan that focuses on Amazon sales. Finally, if you’re interested in the publishing system I use to make my living, and for which I’ve walked away from many trade contract offers, I summed it all up in “Print-on-Demand Book Publishing”, not to be confused with subsidy publishing.

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10.25.13

Amazon Stock May Be Up, but the Company Still Doesn’t Make Any Money

That glowing new bestseller, that Friday stock bump, that rosy Christmas outlook—they can’t hide that after 20 years, the company still hasn’t managed to turn a profit. Daniel Gross on whether it ever will.
Amazon.com and Jeff Bezos, its founder and chief executive officer, are having a moment. They are the subject of a new, admiring bestselling book, The Everything Store, by Brad Stone. Bezos just plunked down $250 million to buyThe Washington Post. The buoyant stock, up 64 percent in the past year, got a nice jolt on Friday as investors were enthused about its third-quarter results: revenues were up 24 percent from a year ago, and Amazon issued a positive forecast for the Christmas season. The company is killing it in books and retailing goods, has a rapidly growing cloud storage and computing business, and is getting into original content and devices. It sports an impressive market capitalization of about $166 billion.

And yet.

The company, first founded in 1994, still doesn’t make any money. In the third quarter, it reported a $41 million net loss.