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Originally Posted by Barcey
Amazon has put themselves in a position where there is a large opportunity for abuse.
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They really haven't.
Other parties took over smaller stores that were as good a Amazon's store and ruined them.
Amazon fell into its current position as the biggest store as much because of incompetence and skullduggery on the part of its competitors as through its own efforts.
Amazon didn't make Feedbooks and Fictionwise shadows of what they were.
Nor did it force Sony to not keep up with its store.
All that would be needed for say...Smashwords to compete better with Amazon would be for the content to be tagged and filtered so readers to be able to find what they like. And maybe a better user review structure. Just about every manga scanlating site does the former and the latter wouldn't be that hard to do. Kobo could be more competitive even with its higher prices if content were organized.
So at the end of the day, Amazon didn't claw its way to the top of the heap. It plodded along steadily and the competition took a nap or wondered off.