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Originally Posted by Sonist
Yep, Amazon still sells, and it didn't really get hurt.
Small ebook sellers are out of business, however.
Because Apple's most favorite nation deal and uniform pricing removed all incentives for consumers to shop outside of their hardware ecosystems.
If the prices are the same, why go through the hassle of going to a small etailer? Get it?
There were ebook price comparison sites before Apple rigged the market. If my memory serves me, one was started by a member her. They all went bust....  |
Pretty hard for someone with someone with as small percentage of the market as Apple to rig the market. The small retailers have the same issue competing with Amazon as Apple does, i.e. getting past the ease of getting book on the device that Amazon gives you with the Kindle (both device and app). That, by the way, isn't a complaint or a call for anti-trust operations. Amazon did the same with the Kindle store that Apple did with iTunes, create an infrastructure to easily purchase and consume digital content that's hard to beat.
As long as Amazon remains competitive price wise, that's an advantage that's hard to beat. The iTunes store is still the biggest seller of digital music by a large margin. Where Apple might get beat is by the music streaming services. I'm not sure that the ebook subscription services provide the same sort of competition. Maybe if they offered a better selection they might.