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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, are you saying that today, Amazon makes a loss on the sale of every book that is on the NYT list? I know that at one time Amazon sold NYT books at $9.99 or less, but they don't still do so, do they? Isn't that largely what agency pricing was introduced to prevent?
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Yes, illegal as it may have been, the publishers and Apple got Amazon to stop...after the damage is already done and nobody can come close to competing.
I like Amazon. I buy my ebooks from them and lots of other things too. I'm a Prime member. I read them on my iPhone and iPad.
I do find it interesting that those who denied the anti-competitive nature of Amazon's business are now defending the lack of competition in this space in the US to ebooks being a niche market. We have competition that compares to the rest of the world in every other manner of electronics...but for ebook readers...we don't.
But don't blame Amazon. Never blame Amazon.