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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
A monopoly is never good for consumers. Which is why I support Amazon's efforts to keep the ePub format from attaining monopoly among the ebook formats. If Amazon wouldn't fight the good fight, ePub would rule and that would not be good for humanity.
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Amazon has been sent back in time to prevent Epub from becoming self-aware.
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Originally Posted by jswinden
I suspect the DX models might be out of luck as well.
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They will probably lose features.
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Originally Posted by Barty
Amazon is not fighting a monopoly. They are leveraging their near monopoly on the ebook market in order to put out their own format, and in turn using the format to further enhance their monopoly.
Sorry, but amazon users cannot simultaneously argue that ePub is not a standard that needs to be followed AND ePub is a monopoly to be fought against.
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Amazon has 2/3 of the US market and just over 50% of the global market. It's not a monopoly. Yet.
Also, "leveraging their monopoly" is usually a term that is used when a company is using its monopoly in one market to give it an advantage in another area. I.e., MS leveraged its monopoly in the desktop OS market to gain advantage in the browser market. There's no "format" market, so that's not really what Amazon is doing...any more than epub is leveraging its near monopoly to put out epub 3.