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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I believe that notimp's position is that Amazon are working to completely control the retail ebook format, so that when Kindles become the only ebook device available, Amazon'll be the only ones able to supply content for the devices, and all publishers and authors will need to go through Amazon to sell ebooks to the public.
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I don't think that is a particularly controversial assertion. Companies like to dominate, and Amazon stated that from their inception by their choice of name: Amazon, the biggest river.
But I'm not sure that noimp is stating _exactly_ that. I'm sure he'll respond. But for my part, I don't think Amazon wants to _totally_ dominate the market-place as that may lead them open to accusations of monopoly and resulting legal action and breakup. For example, Windows invested in Apple when it was down on its luck to keep a token competitor in the market. Amazon don't want to totally dominate the market, but they want to effectively dominate it by having a massive (but not quite monopoly share) of the market. It seems to me that kfx and a proprietary private format are a natural strategy with that goal in mind.