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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Ultimately the book market was B&N's to lose, and they lost it. And I'm fairly confident if they hadn't, you'd be kvetching as much about the Bully B&N as you do Amazon.  |
I think you are right. I am not against Amazon as a fair competitor; I am against Amazon's bullying of the publishing market. Substitute B&N for Amazon and it would be B&N I'm against.
I only care that B&N survive because in the absence of B&N and Kobo, Amazon would have little to no effective competition in ebooks. Apple is really indifferent to ebooks and if it does not make enough profit with ebooks, will not hesitate to drop its ebookstore. In this sense, it is as nimble as Google
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