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Amazon is right now helping to both lower the prices of e-books for consumers as well as increasing the availability of books globally.
As a consumer I think that is amazing. You should too.
I think special interest groups like this one, often develop a form of Stockholm syndrome due to our close connection with the established businesses feeding our interests.
We're seeing the effect of digitization and "new services" has on other established industries, like the music industry and how these businesses are fighting tooth and claw to keep their old business models.
My personal view is that it's up to the publishers to figure out how to compete in the new market. Either by offering new services with higher earning potential or turn value added services into high earners. There's a market hungry for special collectors items that is hardly tapped into.
Until they do so, I enjoy how much better as a consumer I have it, compared to just a few years ago. Part of my thanks for that goes to businesses like Amazon.
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