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Correct me if I'm wrong, but all those things existed before the Agency model came in, and Amazon's 'walled garden' had an even larger market share than it does now?
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The e-reader players in 2007, when the Kindle was introduced, were Amazon and Sony and the smaller e-readers. The ones without book stores. Sony's bookstore was, well, a joke. Amazon's bookstore was pretty small. They used to update the number of books sold on a weekly basis. It was only in the 100,000 area when I got my K1. So yes, Amazon had its garden but people were shopping at the independent stores as well as Amazon and Sony at the time. I know a decent number of people lost e-books when the Agency Model went into effect because they had not downloaded them and the independent stores could no longer offer them.