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Originally Posted by jamadams
I'm intrigued to know why you think that Amazon is bad for readers. My view would be completely the opposite.
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You need to read my post again. I didn't say Amazon was bad for readers, I said that less competition was bad for readers. Amazon's purchase of GR effects how GR can/will be used by competitors like Sony and Kobo, quite likely to their detriment. How much detriment remains to be seen.
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
If it isn't good for readers, it is definitely not good for authors. I don't care who sells what, authors are in the same bucket as the readers. There may be distributors, artists, publishers, marketers, webpages, and retailers in-between those two, but in the end, you need two actual things to read: an author and a reader.
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The book industry is a little strange. It is difficult to determine exactly what the market will bear, especially at this point in time. With less competition it is possible that prices could rise - costing readers but
possibly paying more to authors. It is unclear how much of a price rise could occur before sales dropped in relation - so the trade-off effects of volume vs per-unit revenue are difficult to predict. Hence my comment that it was possible it would be good for authors. Possible is not certain, it could go the other way, but the equation isn't simple.