Thread: Did the Big 5 Shoot their own foot with demanding the return of Agency Pricing?
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Old 03-03-2016, 06:30 AM   #58
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by Phogg View Post


Amazon's dominance is fueled by competitor incompetence.
...and the BPHs hurting their competitors and driving many of them out of business.

Even now: higher ebook prices driving BPH ebook sales to print? Well, Amazon sells print. Kobo, Google, and Apple don't. B&N does but their website issues negate any advantage of the shift.

Plus, as documented clearly last fall, Amazon competitors rely on BPH ebooks more than Amazon for a variety of reasons so moving sales from ebook to pbook hurts Amazon competitors more than Amazon. Add in that ebook shoppers are already online and the logical place to buy pbooks if they are cheaper than ebooks is online. And who dominates online pbook sales? Amazon.

The ostensible reason for the BPH's six year war on Amazon is that they don't want to be dependent on Amazon for sales yet everything they've done since october 2009 has only strengthened Amazon and weakened and destroyed their competitors.

With enemies like that one hardly needs allies.

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