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Originally Posted by Sonist
The hassle of not ordering directly from your device, if the prices are same across the board. When there is no reason to search for better pricing, convenience becomes paramount.
As to Amazon's pricing, it is not always the cheapest. Amazon may push some best-sellers as loss leaders, but older or less popular title were often at a higher price than many small stores. I know, because I bought a lot of those. Before Apple colluded with the publishers.
Yeah, except that the market never recovered to where it was before Apple destroyed it. Take a look at my search for an older title, Rabbit Run:
http://inkmesh.com/ebooks/rabbit-run...bit+run+updike
See who the providers are? Not many small etailers, right?
It's because very few are left after Apple's most favorite nation deal ran them out of business (before you ask how, please reread at my post about hardware above).
I bought the full Rabbit collection, all from small etailers right before Apple stepped in, for between less than $5 and $7 per title.
The same Rabbit Run is now available at a uniform $11.99, generally only from major retailers, with one UK exception, which is at $19.27.
Apple gained over 20% US share, small etailers age gone, consumers got screwed.
'nuff said. |
Given that Amazon controlled the vast majority of the market, I think you mean Amazon's most favored clause. Apple isn't and never was the competition for the small sites, Amazon was. Many of the small sites were bought out or went out of business well before Apple got involved. If you want the consumers to get unscrewed, then you better hope that someone with the resources to hang with Amazon steps up to the plate. Small retailers will never have the resources to do battle with Amazon long term.