Thread: How the e-book landscape is becoming a walled garden
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Old 03-01-2012, 08:20 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
What the author is actually describing is consolidation in the e-book market...but I think he's wrong about that at all, at least as a practical matter. First of all, it doesn't strike me that the e-book market is any more restricted than the pbook market. The market is still dominated by the same publishers - but most users have much more freedom to buy e-books than they ever did pbooks. And of course there is a wide array of PD books available, as well as many self published books.
Yes. It is only since I've been reading ebooks that I've been able to find books from certain niche publishers. Some of them are ebook-only.
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