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Originally Posted by anamardoll
PubIt authors do not sign exclusivity agreements to stay off Kindles.
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They would be silly to do so, wouldn't they? (60% market share?)
Barnes and Noble, however, does pay for exclusives:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...Yoay4gD_oYYvUA
Look, Amazon forces nobody to go exclusive with them.
They offer up incentives.
The authors choose to accept or decline, based on calculated self-interest.
A lot do, a lot don't.
*Their* choice.
Their funeral or their glory.
That is a perfectly legal, acceptable, and *common* business practice.
Like it or dislike it, it is reality.
(shrug)
And there is nothing the trustbusters can or will do about it; there is ample precedent for locking content to a single platform and keeping others from providing content to that platform, going back to Atari vs Nintendo in 1993.
In that case, not only did Atari's antitrust claim on Nintendo, get thrown out, they got dinged for violating Nintendo IP by the same court.
http://www.1up.com/news/day-history-...uilty-landmark