Is Amazon dependent on Borders for referrals, or does it have its own Internetbased order flow? Is your answer consistent with the multiyear fee-for-service contract between Borders and Amazon.com...

Is Amazon dependent on Borders for referrals, or does it have its own Internetbased order flow?

Is your answer consistent with the multiyear fee-for-service contract between Borders and Amazon.com whereby Amazon processes the order, ships the book, records the sales, and pays Borders a referral fee? One Borders executive described

this as a “low-risk, low-return” approach to online sales while retaining Borders’

focus on its core mission of running bookshops.