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Originally Posted by leebase
Once physical books take enough of a back seat to ebooks....when the lionshare of profits come from ebooks...then what incentive will the big six publishers have to continue selling through Amazon? Overnight they could cease working with Amazon and open their own, combined, ebook website. They won't have to worry about losing sales as anyone who wants to buy books can be directly accommodated by them via their own website. They could disintermediate Amazon the way that Amazon has disintermediated the local book store.
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As long as Amazon can maintain the dominance of the Kindle platform and be the only access for the DRM for that platform, the publishers have no choice but to sell through them or abandon those customers.