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Originally Posted by Hellmark
If you only want to read on your reader, and you don't have a Kindle, then you're not going to buy from Amazon.
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Big if. Doesn't take much looking around here to see that people read in various ways.
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And as far as your initial analogy, that is still skewed. If 48% (or 1 of every two ebook reader owners) has a kindle, then the non kindle owner is not going to buy from amazon. Note that the market share is not based on ebook sales, but on reader sales.
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I thought it was books but the logic still holds. I have a Kindle and a Sony. I contribute 50% market share of both, but I'm still a full customer of Amazon
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Consider reader sales figures as a maximum market size[...]Kindle exclusive halves the potential market by half.
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But it's not and it doesn't. Some people have more than one device, some people read books on things other than dedicated readers.
Reduces? Possibly. Halves? Certainly not. How many people read Kindle books on their iPod or iPad alone.
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Oh yeah, from Amazon's end it is brilliant. I am not arguing against Amazon's standpoint here. I thought the discussion was about authors and their books being Kindle exclusive.
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I lost track of what it was about.
But I think my argument holds true in either case.
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How does that make any sense?
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It doesn't. It was a shot at those who cry "monopoly" when Amazon has done nothing unfair and has only offered an overwhelmingly successful model.
I feel the same way about those who cry "boycott" if a book is over $10.
ApK