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Old 05-27-2008, 03:27 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Smashwords View Post
Amazon is set to become the world's largest digital publisher. As digital books take off and start accounting for an ever-increasing percentage of book sales, authors may bypass traditional publishers and POD printers altogether and go straight to Amazon and other digital publishers where they get 35% royalty or more.
At that point, will it be an abuse of their monopoly if they don't allow you to purchase books for other devices, ala the recent EU struggles with Apple's iTunes software and the iPod?
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