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Originally Posted by pwalker8
There is actually very little barrier to entry for starting up an ebook store. If Amazon starts to act as the gatekeeper for ebooks, then I would expect other ebook stores to start popping up.
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The problem I was referring to is this: if the only layer between the user and the content is Amazon, that strikes me as a very powerful proposition on Amazon's part. Not too many competitors can claim to be the ONLY layer in this example, and it makes the barrier to entry for new businesses very, very high.
Even if adding more publishers to the equation seems like it would add another gatekeeper, it at least allows for anything in between the user and the content to be swapped out easier, and in a more idyllic situation, each of these layers would be accountable to each other.