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Originally Posted by lenseman
I am thinking Amazon might not be the real threat but rather Google in the long term. With their acquisition of that tablet/ereader company recently they seem to be getting ready to push out their own device. I think we will be seeing a lot more 'free' offers from their online bookstore to help push its adoption.
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I really don't think that Google will be much of a threat to Amazon. I think that Google is very good at what they do...but what they do is write software, most of which exists in the cloud, give the software away, and manage to make money through advertising.
I don't think that this model will lend itself to books very easily, and I don't see that Google would be any better than amazon at making deals with publishers and selling through their website.