Nyssa,
Sil_lis posted this link, which it seems you missed.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...th-caveat.html
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In recent instances, Amazon’s exclusive publisher deals have prohibited Barnes & Noble from selling certain e-books.
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If you'd like an actual example of an actual book, there's the Konrath one which was a bit of a furor because it's an Amazon Kindle Exclusive and that was a divergence from his previous methodology which was to get a book in as many stores as possible:
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/0...s-release.html
(Konrath is explicitly teaching his readers how to convert the mobi book to epub, incidentally.)
As I understand it, anything published by Amazon Encore (the Amazon Publisher) will ONLY be sold through the Kindle store in terms of e-Book copies. Therefore, yes, there are e-books that are only sold through the Amazon store
at Amazon's arrangement. Whether or not this publisher-gives-exclusive-access-to-its-own-distributor is legal is not my purview, but the impetus is there.
Since Amazon Encore deliberately buys up best-selling indie works (hence the "encore" in the name), it's a source of concern to some people to have it ALSO be exclusive to the Kindle store.
(Amusingly, Konrath needs to update his eBook Store page -- the "this book contains all of my writing" option for $43.99 now, notably,
doesn't, since he (apparently) can't sell Shaken at his own site, due to his deal with Amazon. I'd find more Konrath links but the internet is being slow tonight.)