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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Kindle/Kindle app users have the selection they like at a price they are willing to pay, and don't see this as an imposition...now. What happens if Amazon does obtain a monopoly on ebook sales (or even a strong majority of the market? Want to bet they won't raise prices, because you don't have an alternative and they can, if they think they need to?
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Amazon already have a strong majority of the eBook market.
For that matter, don't they also have a majority of the pBooks market?
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What they initially pressed Amazon to do was delay the availability of the ebook version to give the hardcover time to sell, for the same reason there is a year delay between the hardcover and the mass market paperback release. Amazon declined, and even dropped the price of some Kindle editions to $7.99 in a node thumb at the publishers.
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You've already withdrawn from this claim in another thread. If the publishers wanted Amazon to delay selling eBooks, they could have simply not given the eBooks to Amazon to sell. Amazon cannot sell eBooks that they have not been given to sell, so the publishers have absolute control over when they start being sold.
What they wanted was to change the price that they were being sold at.