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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
I don't think they're anywhere near being a monopoly. Heck, they're not even a monopoly for Kindle books, unless they somehow were to block side-loading. How can anything Amazon does keep Kobo, B&N, Google, or any other Web site from making e-books available?
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If you look at the sales figures for anyone who has published them, Amazon sales outnumber other sales by a factor of 10 to 1. They might not be a monopoly, but they do have the power to kill someone's writing career stone dead.
We had something like this in the UK in the 80s when the moral minority decided that horror films were bad for us. We were lucky that we could still buy them from other countries (though even posession was a crime). That isn't something you will be able to do in this case because Amazon's decision over whether something is suitable reading or not is global.