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Amazon Is Losing Its Shirt

Posted at 4:50PM Friday 18 Dec 2009

With all the buzz around e-readers, analysts expect big numbers out of hardware sales and e-book consumption. While hardware sales may experience huge growth in the coming years, we believe many underestimate the losses companies like Amazon will need to weather before selling e-books becomes a meaningfully profitable business.

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