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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
When Amazon was resisting agency pricing, they had not clearly won the reader wars, B&N and Sony still had substantial market share. Amazon was willing took take smaller profit on their ebooks, along with the lock-in the manufacturers gave them by requiring DRM, and their superior ebook buying experience compared to their competitors' websites to become the defacto standard ebook platform. Now that they have a clear majority of ebook readers that with never go away unless the publishers force all ebooks to be sold in a standard format that can be read by any dedicated ebook reader (and maybe not even then), there is no reason for Amazon to do any ebook discounting on their own.
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Amazon doesn't have "a clear majority of ebook readers that with never go away."
All that would be needed to make say...Smashwords competitive would be an in depth keyword system to enable more functional content searches.
Sites like Baka-Updates implement that and Baka-Updates isn't even selling a product.
Amazon's dominance is fueled by competitor incompetence.