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Similar situation with Amazon Tickets, they threw money at it, then abruptly stopped. I imagine they do this a lot in a lot of industries to see what sticks.


Don't forget about Amazon Local Register, a common theme among all these failed and summarily canned offerings is Amazon was going up against an industry where the core business was relationship based between vendors and venues/businesses, with small margins after everything is said and done.

Amazon seems not to want to eat its lunch forever outside its artificial book subsidies. If a product isn't net positive within 2 years, its off to the chopping block.




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