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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I'm surprised that even 16% of respondents think that only one bookstore is needed.
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Look to the OP.
He's not asking what the *industry* needs.
Yes, competition is good. (As long as its not Amazon, or Apple, or Microsoft, or some other big successful company doing the competing. Only competition by struggling or nearly-irrelevant companies is good.
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The question is: "how many bookstores would you browse".
(And buy from.)
And with the domination of the walled gardens (Kindle and Nook add up to 90% of ebook sales) and the Fixed Priced scam in place, there is no *practical* real-world need for real-world ebook buyers to go to more than one ebookstore. That *is* what they signed up for with their walled-garden readers. And they don't.
Theoretical competition is all fine and dandy but the real world out there and the numbers it produces say that the *actual* mainstream ebook buyers only need one ebookstore to meet their needs.
(Of course, there is room for author and publisher direct-sale web sites, but those aren't really ebookstores in the sense of this discussion. They're just "factory-outlets".)
Now, just because individual ebook buyers only need *one* bookstore doesn't mean the *industry* doesn't need more than one. Just that the needs of the one aren't the needs of the many.
