Amazon Blows More Smoke . . .

Amazon Blows More Smoke . . . 
Posted at 8:15AM Wednesday 27 Oct 2010 
Following up on our earlier stories about the Amazon astroturf effort, and even more particularly on yesterday's post asking why no one ever questions the fact that Amazon, a publicly traded company after all, never offers actual numbers to back up its claims, we offer a discussion of same from Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch. As he notes, there are "aspects of Amazon's math that don't add up, and probably never will given their limited disclosure."
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/30003
http://mhpbooks.com/mobylives/?p=19334




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