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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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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I was talking about the DRM aspect, not Amazon gaining retailer dominance. I really don't care much about retailer dominance, but I do think that the nature of ebooks (their being so easy to publish and distribute) tends to make the role of middlemen like Amazon much less important and therefore the likelihood of their gaining stranglehold on the market much less likely.