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Originally Posted by Gudy
Uhm... All that angst, as you so quaintly put it, is probably less about the 11% Amazon market share and more about the 86% drop in Bertelsmann book club sales. Which, from where I sit, makes it look less like angst and more like a sound business decision. But then, what do I know about business?
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I was referring to the continuing german media angst over Amazon retailing practices and "bullying" of publishers. Including recent antitrust charges from said retailers.
At 11%,
in a price-fixed market, their market power is actually very limited by any rational economic analysis since they can only account for an equIvalent portion of the publisher's business. Especially in a market with single digit ebook penetration.
Here:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/0...laint-germany/
http://publishingperspectives.com/20...rseas-as-well/
Plenty more all over.