Waterstone's Ditches Amazon

British book chain Waterstone's has discovered this Internet thing may catch on. That discovery seems to come as parent HMV noticed Amazon poaching their profits by managing the store's online presence. Five years of lost commission later, Waterstone's will be launching its own website this fall. With low expectations of the e-commerce world, the book chain signed up with Amazon in 2001 as a channel to sell its specialty books online, declining to set up its own website. Realizing the store was losing potential customers, and with brick-and-mortar sales declining, Waterstone's released Amazon from its stewardship when contract renewal time arrived. The chain's initial site, here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web