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Originally Posted by Daithi
Before Amazon got into the ebook market there was a selection of tens of thousands of ebooks, now there is a selection of over a million ebooks. So shouldn't Amazon get credit for that? Also, we had $9.99 best sellers because of Amazon, at least until Apple got involved.
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3 million of those 'million books' are Google Books, so I wouldn't give Amazon all the credit.
Although I do agree Kindle users should have the same library privileges, it is perfectly true that Kindle lending has put a strain on library ebook lending that was not there before. I trust it will shake out in time, but it is a concern.
I still wonder why no one has filed a lawsuit against agency pricing - that's the very definition of 'price fixing' and highly illegal.
Penguin's actions don't make any sense on the surface - there must be something we're missing.