Thread: Authors Group Urges Opposition to E-Book Settlement
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Old 06-07-2012, 08:42 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
Because if you have a big enough market share, you can insist that your suppliers give you sweetheart deals unavailable to the new entrants.
Like the deals B&N and Borders were getting when Amazon started out?
Somehow, Amazon managed to grow past that Barrier-to-entry(TM).
So far, others (Kobo!) seem to be doing just fine and Baker and Taylor seem to think they can do fine despite a "fashionably late" start.

By the time this phase of the ebook evolution is over there will be others in the game and the whole "Amazon threat" thing will rank with the Red Threat of the 50's as examples of demagogic hysteria-mongering.
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