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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As for the impact to consumer prices, german readers here can speak to that better, but what I hear is they face unacceptably high ebook prices anyway. One reason why ebooks amount to so little there. Where Amaxoncan bring change there is towards lower prices if they foster a healthy indie ebook marketplace as in the US/UK.
All I see in that environment is a bunch of deeply entrenched players looking to screw consumers and retailers as long as possible and amazed that anybody would dare talk back to them. And scared that Amazon might foster an indie ebook revolt like they have in the US/UK.
Not impressed.
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Having lived in the Canadian North, I have seen more screwing of consumers by the entrenched businesses who prior to 2005 and later, (in some small communities even to this day) I think I understand what you are saying. 2003 prices for a quart of milk, $9 and a package of photocopy paper $11.98. I was once asked by an Inuvialuit woman how you tell if a pear is good. She had paid $5 for one and it was hard like a rock she said.
The incumbent retailer is not always the good guy.
Helen