Ever wondered how Amazon makes money

September 7, 2014 Leave a comment

Amazon often seems to sell things so cheaply that we often wonder how they can possibly make on profit on that. Is it just because of the massive volume of sales. This article on the Andreessen Horowitz blog drills down into some detail precisely how Amazon’s business model actually works – it’s complicated. This article was brought to my attention by my colleague Mark Wilson.

from The Universal Machine http://universal-machine.blogspot.com/2014/09/ever-wondered-how-amazon-makes-money.html

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About Ian Watson
I'm a New Zealand author, computer scientist, consultant, speaker and blogger specialising in Artificial Intelligence. I also have an interest in the history of computing and have written a popular science book called "The Universal Machine - from the dawn of computing to digital consciousness."

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