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Originally Posted by jfman
Surely you've answered your own question. If Amazon already have so many customers, hold so much data, and have "trillions of dollars" why would they waste £5bn+ to then sell a product they don't want or need on their portfolio?
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But why are they getting involved in sports to begin with, then?
Look back at Amazon's origins. How many independent book stores are there now? I think that's the reason why they're getting involved in sports.
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Originally Posted by jfman
Old Boy says he spends £500 a year on Amazon, but what's the profit margin? Is he going to spend even more if they sold football at a loss out of kindness?
In reality there's diminishing returns from this where the set of rights they have will gain a lot of little outlay. Substantially more rights will cost more to achieve fewer core subscribers.
Then we come back to why England? Why not North America? Germany? Italy? Spain?
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Like Hollywood films, our premier league stopped being a English football league years ago. It's a international league with a fast growing global audience unlike other leagues like La liga and couple that with other global sports like golf, tennis etc and films/tv and you have a compelling product you can sell across the globe.