Thread: Conspiracy Theory: What is Amazon hiding about the Kindle?
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Old 03-16-2008, 10:20 PM   #40
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
That will be a cold day in hell.
All I can say is, they used to say that about the day Amazon.com would be a major bookseller, competing at the same level as companies like B&N and Borders. It may be hard to believe, but that doesn't mean that isn't exactly what they're shooting for.

Sure, others will want to maintain their own formats. But we've seen ample examples of smaller fish that couldn't compete with the bigger fish and moved on.

And if Amazon manages to outperform the other e-book sellers, I don't see any reason why it can't happen. They could even give up on DRM just to win mindshare. And who's got a bigger catalog of books at their disposal?

I really don't think it's that farfetched.
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