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I also share Paul Emmanuelli's fear about the monopoly DRM software could grant Amazon. If the Kindle achieves the same kind of market dominance Apple has with iTunes, it could have disastrous consequences. Effectively, there would be only one publisher; one gateway between writers and the public. And if you're an author and Amazon doesn't like you, or hasn't heard of you, you are – let's not mince words – screwed.
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Frankly, I am still amazed by this attitude. Hello... internet era? Global outreach on a self-made website? Blogs ahoy?
Just because Amazon controls the books that go through its store, doesn't mean there is no other way to get books into it. Publishers and Indie authors can easily promote, advertise and sell their wares completely independently of Amazon, which can be read on other than Amazon devices, guaranteeing that it will never, ever have a "monopoly" over books as long as there is a world wide web.
Concerns that Amazon will create a publishing and distribution monopoly are just plain ludicrous overreactions.