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Originally Posted by anamardoll
Nyssa,
Sil_lis posted this link, which it seems you missed.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...th-caveat.html
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. |
*emphasis added by me.
Which still does not prove a monopoly.
1. The book can be purchased in paper through other stores.
B&N,
Books-A-Million,
BiggerBooks.com to name a few.
2. The book can be borrowed from the library.
3. The author chose to use Amazon instead of some other publisher...Amazon did not "force" him to do so.
He has prevented consumers from getting the
e-book version from other sources.
Again, there is no proof of a monopoly. When Amazon becomes the only source for all of the items it sells, (like FPL once being the only source for electricity in the city, county, or state of Florida) then I will consider it a monopoly.