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Originally Posted by FF2
Two weeks later is was back to the old, lower price. I purchased it a week later. It was almost a 10 percent price increase. No idea why it went up and then down. So, yes, they might corner the market and then inflate prices. They CAN do it - just remains if they will do it.
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I have no idea what was going on in the price gyrations you saw. And I agree, Amazon
could raise prices across the board. I just think it's unlikely they will. They want to keep the customers. For most things you buy from Amazon, there
are other places you can get them, so Amazon doesn't have you locked in. For ebooks it's thornier. The Kindle eco-system and Amazon DRM
does try to lock you in to Amazon as your sole source of ebooks. They could get away with an across the board price increase more easily with ebooks in terms of retaining existing customers, but the negative publicity they'd get from the move might make it harder to gain new customers.
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Dennis