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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Sure there are three or four major vendors right now (amazon, apple, B&N and Sony) but saying that they can decide who gets in and who does, while technically true, doesn't represent reality. Reality is that they all want all the authors and ebooks they can get. If you own the rights to a book, and it doesn't violate the standards of the store, then any of the stores will be more than happy to sale the book if you sign the contract. . . .
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But as threads in this section of MR often show, many other issues and conflicts result in the unavailability of books from the major vendors (exclusive deals with publishers, price agreement, renegotiation, etc.).
That's why I believe we need an attractively efficient, ubiquitous and non-proprietary shopping search engine for ebooks. I posted on that topic
elsewhere, but perhaps the point is more relevant here.