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fjtorres · 06-05-2013, 09:12 AM

The list of fallout from the conspiracy is looonnnggg...
Just off the top of my head:
- scaring the big asian CE companies out of the dedicated reader device market (Samsung, Asus, Acer...) and effectively foreclosing the North American market to Sony and the second tier vendors that stayed in the business
- crippling (and eventually killing) at least some of the independent ebookstores just as ereader adoption peaked
- iBooks was the kiss of death for ADEPT-based ebook interoperability
- BPH ebook prices went up, indie ebook prices went down -- indie ebooks became respectable
- With ebook price competition off the table as a differentiator, ebookstore customer experience became the top driver of customer choice -- Amazon became the safe buy by default for mainstream buyers.
- Amazon US market share stayed (at worst) flat *after* the Fix kicked in; Apple's gains came at the expense of everybody else in the epub world
- Amazon's worldwide share grew, both in hardware and ebooks

Yup! They really showed Amazon a thing or two with their conspiracy.

06-05-2013, 09:12 AM	#25
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	The list of fallout from the conspiracy is looonnnggg... Just off the top of my head: - scaring the big asian CE companies out of the dedicated reader device market (Samsung, Asus, Acer...) and effectively foreclosing the North American market to Sony and the second tier vendors that stayed in the business - crippling (and eventually killing) at least some of the independent ebookstores just as ereader adoption peaked - iBooks was the kiss of death for ADEPT-based ebook interoperability - BPH ebook prices went up, indie ebook prices went down -- indie ebooks became respectable - With ebook price competition off the table as a differentiator, ebookstore customer experience became the top driver of customer choice -- Amazon became the safe buy by default for mainstream buyers. - Amazon US market share stayed (at worst) flat after the Fix kicked in; Apple's gains came at the expense of everybody else in the epub world - Amazon's worldwide share grew, both in hardware and ebooks Yup! They really showed Amazon a thing or two with their conspiracy.