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Originally Posted by vxf
You want me to believe . . . .
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Maybe this is just your rhetorical style here and should be ignored. But, for the record, I do not ask you to match your beliefs to mine. I'm here for fun, not to bend minds.
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Are you trying to claim that Amazon has some secret plan to raise prices, but that the financial industry someone knows about it, while us ebook consumers are being drawn into the trap?
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No, I'm just trying to claim what I've previously claimed.
Jeff Bezos is already an unusually long-tenured CEO. In a few years, there could be a whole different management team. So any plan, secret or public, may not matter.
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In no way will you convince me that barriers to entry in ebooks are anywhere comparable to those of setting up any brick-and-mortar type of outlet, or to retaining (even online) printed books.
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Of course I won't convince you. But for the record, I did not compare the barrier to entry to brick and mortar, but rather to the barrier to entry of a new on-line book store with a big inventory.
Now, it's true that someone could, in a few months, set up a bookstore for just best-sellers. Amazon has to protect against this by being willing to take losses on those few titles. If all you read is fiction best-sellers, and you purchase them as eBooks, perhaps the settlement is in your financial interest.