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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Theoretically.
In practice, all it takes is a big enough campaign contributor whining in the right ear.
Politicians are plenty cheap to buy and once market share gets big enough, anything short of the company committing suicide is bound to offend somebody, so finding enough complaints to justify an inquisition is trivial.
Just look at how much flack they are getting at 30% total book market share. Now, imagine what it would be like if Nook folded and Kobo withdrew, leaving then at over half the total book market.
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Sigh, I'd rather spend my time reading rather than worrying about theoretical threats that may never come to pass. This is what got the price fixing 5 in to trouble in the first place!
Why everyone always LOOKS for things to be, go, wrong just so they have something to bitch about I don't understand. even if B&N & Kobo went under, someone else will quickly fill the void or do you really thing the tons of us who have invested in epub are just going to change everything over to Amazon? Do you really think we would all be willing to rebuy all of our books to change over to Amazon?
I could since I have Calibre, but I wouldn't because I like epub books. And the majority of readers have no knowledge of it and probably wouldn't do a conversion of all their books. Nor would they rebuy all of their books with Amazon.