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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
You are right. I took your saying that Amazon needed to stay focused and in danger of becoming complacent an distracted to mean that you thought they already were. My mistake and I apologise.
I also agree that Amazon will eventually have stiff competition, although I don't think it will be this year or next.
I think that they are juggling too many balls, and I have seen a few of them drop already. But that is just my opinion.
I don't agree that they are a monopoly, although they do have a pretty strong position in the book market and many others.
I am aware of the Internet Explorer/Netscape examples although I was unaware that either was a monopoly. My understanding was with Internet Explorer the big objection was that it was packaged with Windows, which it still seems to be. And 19% does not seem a really shabby position.
And why would DRM have anything to do with competition in the ebook market? Publishers and authors can sell with it or without it at more than one place already including Amazon, and including of course their own stores if they have them or want to start them and most publishers and authors seem to feel it advantageous to sell with it.
Hope I am not putting words in your mouth again, and my sincere apologies for my wrong conclusion.
Helen
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I'm pretty sure that at the time IE usage was up over 90%, which is where the Amazon ebook store was at for a while.
No need to apologize, web boards are narrow communication bands, so misunderstandings are to be expected. I'm sure that I could do a much better job of communicating my ideas clearly.
The big thing that DRM does is make it difficult for stores to sell ebooks that work with all sorts of readers and all sorts of formats. I don't have a big problem converting between formats since I've taken the time to acquire the tools needed, but most consumers have neither the desire nor the ability to follow that path. Right now, both the Amazon and B&N book reader apps are tightly coupled to their stores. The Kindle devices are very tightly coupled to the Amazon store. I can buy Amazon books from Baen books, for example, that doesn't have DRM and automatically gets sent to my kindle device, If I were to desire it.