http://publishingperspectives.com/20...zon-dominance/
According to Betteridge's Law of Headlines, the answer is probably no, by the way.
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Glaister said that without “significant government intervention, it is impossible to compete [with Amazon]. Without in-app purchasing, it is impossible for competition to flourish. The businesswoman in me wants to admire Amazon, but as a parent this dominance worries me. Does it matter if we only have one or two ebook players? Yes, because you end up with only one physical bookseller too. It’s a dystopian disaster.”
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But some industry observers say that the real villain is not Amazon, but Adobe. As one senior figure put it: “Because they are the only system that anyone else can use they charge massive license feels to retailers and publishers. They are torture. They are the monopoly that exploits us in my view, not Amazon.”
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