Thread: Amazon's vertical integration/monopoly
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Old 06-30-2016, 02:31 AM   #462
Josieb1
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Your argument falls over because Amazon doesn't need a proprietary format to keep the vast majority of Kindle owners happily buying ebooks only from Amazon.
I used to buy a lot of books from small publishers like Dreamspinner Press and a small ebook retailer called Allromance but since the UK tax increase was implemented last year and now with the value of the pound against the dollar Amazon is the cheapest place to buy the ebooks I want. Proprietary format or not I just buy from the cheapest place. I know it's bad for the authors but I can't afford to pay £6/7 for a book compared to £3/4 on Amazon.
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