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Originally Posted by carld
As far as I know no-one has studied it, but I'd bet that Amazon's selection is better than all the ePub sellers put together (counting only those who have interoperable DRM).
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Excluding the exclusive contract ebooks, a recent phenomenon, any ebook available at Amazon is also available at most other ebookstores. I suspect that there are some self-published ebooks, especially of public domain manuscripts (which make up the 212 offerings of Moby Dick), that can be found in one store but not another, but Amazon's reach is dominant only in the United States and few authors and publishers are willing to sacrifice all the world that is not the United States. In addition, even if Barnes & Noble is the smaller market share store, it still commands 20% or more of the U.S. ebook marketplace, which is too significant for publishers and most authors to ignore.
My point is that Amazon's ebook offerings are readily matched by the offerings found at other ebookstores.