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Originally Posted by rhadin
Without Random House, Simon & Schuster, and the rest of the Agency 6, Amazon would have a major problem in the book business, especially if other ebooksellers had the books. All the publishers lack is the backbone to do it; if they did it, they'd beat Amazon, which would have a difficult time replacing those books. Rembember the battle with Macmillan. Amazon caved.
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I don't think that cutting off 2/3 of your ebook customers is good business for the publishers. I'm not even sure that it woudn't put the publishers in a *worse* place. Amazon would come out with an ePub reader, of course, and now people with eKindles, Nooks, Kobos, and Sonys could *all* buy their books at Amazon.