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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The second, less obvious, is a potential antitrust claim of subsidizing the sale of ebooks with money from other businesses. Amazon might win such a case but they would have to spend litigation money.
Besides, applying the credit only to KDP titles makes KDP more appealing to its users and they too are Amazon customers.
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Except that the credit also applies to
all Android apps,
all music,
all movies & TV shows, so all the limitation does is either drive users to buy something other than eBooks, or convince them to not even bother with slower shipping to get the credit.
The real problem here is that unlike all the other digital items, Amazon has been forced by fear of those lawsuits to not "sell" any books by any of the big 5 publishers or their subsidiaries. When the movie and TV industry is more open with their terms, you know something is wrong with the publishing industry.