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Originally Posted by murraypaul
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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A qualified yes to the first, and no to the second. They'd
like to have the majority of the pbook market. But there are these outfits like CostCo and Sam's Club, and Walmart and Target, not to mention small fry like B&N and Borders in the way. I believe Amazon the largest individual share, but not a majority of the total market.
(It's a qualified yes to the first because Amazon has a majority of the market, but I don't know offhand how strong it is. B&N is certainly pushing hard to close the gap, and there are other ebook retailers out there.)
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You've already withdrawn from this claim in another thread.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.
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See what I said earlier. They probably
should have simply delayed releasing the ebooks to Amazon until sometime after the HC was released. I don't think it occurred to them that Amazon would choose to retain the $9.99 price point on those books. (Should it have? Quite possibly. I don't think
either side has covered itself in glory in this affair.)
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What they wanted was to change the price that they were being sold at.
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Yes. They did. The Agency Model was the mechanism to force it.
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Dennis