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Originally Posted by leebase
I'd say it's because Amazon has the US market locked up and doesn't allow other eInk devices to work with it's content.
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Nope, it is the publishers and their insistence on DRM that do that. And it is every platform, not specifically Amazon.
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So to launch an ebook reader is to also launch an ebook store that has to be able to compete with Amazon who willingly takes a loss on every popular book it sells.
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That false claim is often touted by BWM and Apple apologists as though it means something. Sadly, the Justice department proved it wrong.
Amazon has never lost money selling ebooks, and the loss-leaders have never AFAIK been "every popular book it sells".
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Even Apple wouldn't touch the ebook market without the business model of Amazon being changed. And yeah, that turned out to be illegal.
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No, just the way they went about it.
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So, there you have it. It's tough to foster new entrants into a market owned by a monopoly with the funds to use the product you hope to make money on as a loss leader for their other businesses.
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Amazon does not use ebooks as a loss-leader for other products -- where did you hear that from???