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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Right now, there isn't much competition for Amazon in the eBook market, but I don't see anything that inherently keeps someone with reasonable capitalization out of the market, i.e. no barrier to entry. Getting the contracts with the various publishers (i.e. building a catalog) and making it easy to buy and read an ebook from you are the keys.
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For that you want an integrated ereader. Adding hardware manufacture to the list, not just dealing with publishers.
And in order to be competition, you need to be significantly big; most people just go for whatever is best-known. The biggest barrier to entry is investing in it to grow it to the level of serious competition.
All this would be easier without Agency, of course.
Small ebookstores could distinguish themselves with pricing, and grow into big companies that can afford a hardware line.