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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
So Amazon was a bad, evil, monopoly because they put together the first successful, large e-book store before three other competitors even entered the market?
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To be fair, there were several other ebook stores for years before Amazon entered the game, and again after they quit selling PDFs in 2007 just before they bought Mobi, and Amazon leeched customers from all of them. Amazon's cross-media approach to ebooks, where it could use its pbook listings to mention "hey! We have ebooks! Which are only useful if you buy our $350 device! Which is awesome!" had a much bigger impact on the market than ereader.com's slow sales of the eBookwise, or later, Sony's walled-garden store. People only went to those stores if they were already interested in ebooks; Amazon had a captive audience that it could pitch ebooks to.
But Apple is, of course, not mentioning the damage Amazon did to Fictionwise and Diesel and BooksonBoard and Mobipocket.com and AllRomanceEbooks, because Apple doesn't want any consideration of the damage *it* did to those stores with the Agency pricing deal.