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Originally Posted by Phogg
These are factors always foremost in my thoughts when partisans of legacy publishers throw their little temper tantrums about Amazon's market share. The big publishers largely put the strongest competitors out of business.
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But, hey, they helped Apple get in!
(They're heroes!)
Now, since Amazon's share never dropped from its pre-agency spring 2010 low of 54% and Nook never exceeded their 26% of that peak, guess where Apple's share came from?
Just like the way Indie bookstores were decimated by the BPHs favoring the chains in the 90's.
Those folks just don't like indies. Period. Not Indie stores and not Indie publishers. Too small to bother with. Not their kind of people, really. They like big chains (preferably HQ'ed in NY), big "literary" Agencies (ditto), big distributors, big lunch martinis in fancy restaurants. Why bother to answer the phone when rabble call?