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Amazon Makes a Profit

Posted by chrisd on from the satan-ordered-a-book-on-freezing-hell-apparently dept.

sofar writes: "Amazon finally makes a profit. Well, only $ 5mln, but maybe you can actually earn something on your stock now. At 1c a share it's no pension fund in Florida yet." I wonder how much of that profit represents 1-click licensing fees.

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  1. Ladies and Gentlemen... by AmbivaLence · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hell has finally frozen over... Good day.

    1. Re:Ladies and Gentlemen... by SilentChris · · Score: 5, Funny
      ...and thank freaking God for that. Hasn't anybody else been the least bit scared at the lack of Internet growth lately? For years I told friends that I was proud to be part of this new technology, whether it be a cornerstone of the economy or not. However, these past two years I've kind of shrugged off the comments "Bet that Computer Science degree is worth a bunch now!"

      All it took was some good old common sense. Stop spending money you don't have. Price-cut, but don't price-cut to the point that you knock your company out. Lay off the cheap sock-puppet gimmicks.

      The analysts are wrong: it is a new economy. It's just that the same old rules still apply.

  2. What to do with the riches? by Mahtar · · Score: 4, Funny

    At 5c a share it's no pension fund in Florida yet

    No, but I hear Enron is looking for buyers.

  3. Congratulations! by kitts · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, if you gave me billions of dollars in venture capital I could probably find a way to give you back $5 million too.

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  4. Jaded? by The+Good+Reverend · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder how much of that profit represents 1-click licensing fees.

    Jaded? Party of one? Your table's ready...

  5. Darn... by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have submitted this first, but i was hit by a flying pig on the way to my computer..

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    1. Re:Darn... by shinji1911 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Personally, I would have too, but I'm too busy trying to get the @##(*@! snowblower to start down here in hell.

  6. two important points to take from this ... by PaganRitual · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... are as follows ...

    1) amazon appear to have made a profit without anyone (or me at least) every receiving any spam from them (sure, i get occasional mailing list stuff, but i signed up for that when i created my account with them) ... see? you dont have to piss ppl off with unsolicited emails to try and make money. sometimes you can just work hard at it (and yes, patent and sell off stuff, but they arent the only business to do it, so GET OVER IT already)

    2) the news link in the article has what may be the worlds first html anchor of the phrase "pooh-poohed" ... i think this page should be archived somewhere for posterity. im pretty sure that even winnie the poohs personal website doesnt have that phrase on it.

  7. Re:Porn by foobar104 · · Score: 5, Funny

    When sites like drbizzaro.com and its partners give away so much product for free...

    That sound you hear is the drbizzaro.com web server exploding into a gazillion pieces.