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Originally Posted by HoraceWimp
I’m not familiar with the nate article you refer to and therefore can’t really comment on the veracity of the percent market share Amazon has. Even assuming that it is the 25% as quoted I’m not sure how relevant that might be to the broad spectrum of books being sold.
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This one:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/20...oh-the-horror/
The 25% figure is actually from the original NYTimes piece, and it is a good example of just how nonsensical that piece was.
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Originally Posted by HoraceWimp
What I do know is that Amazon has been predatory in the book market by slashing prices on books that bricks and mortar stores could not compete with and now many of those bricks and mortar stores have stopped stocking those books, Amazon has started raising prices on them. Presumably to claw back some of the lost profits that their price slashing caused in the first place.
It’s noticeable that Amazon is not raising prices on the more popular best sellers where they do still have plenty of competition, presumably from that 75% of the market they don’t control.
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How do you know that is predation? It sounds like standard retail pricing strategy to me.