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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
You keep forgetting that dedicated ereaders are a niche product. Most ereading is done on phones or tablets. There is not a single phone or tablet I am aware of that locks you into a certain ebook store. I fail to see how the justice department would be involved anytime soon.
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They won't be. At all.
People have been whining about Amazon exclusives since the launch of the first fire tablets seven years ago. Nothing happens because there is no reason for anything to happen. Exclusivity deals are just another business transaction.
If exclusive content were at all illegal, HBO, SHOWTIME, and NETFLIX, would have been called on the carpet long ago. Ditto for SONY, NINTENDO, APPLE, and Microsoft. WalMart, Sears, and BestBuy along with every other retailer with a house brand, too.
For that matter, B&N has long had a line of exclusive books from their publishing arm, STERLING. And they had an exclusive on the PEANUTS books long before Amazon secured any exclusives.
People who dislike Amazon keep drumming up flimsy excuses to sic the feds on them without bothering to consider they are merely following modern business practices used by most everybody in music, video, gaming, and electronics, among others.
Don't like Amazon?
Don't use them.
They won't miss you.
Just don't bother pretending they are some great evil portending the end of civilization. They're just another moneygrubbing multinational like hundreds out there. A bit more useful than most, they're here to stay, just like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, WalMart, and other "great evils" of the day.
The reason they are so big is because they are useful and lots of people use them. They save consumers money, they make small merchants money, and they make publishers big and small more money than anybody else. And as long as they make the Indies more money than they'd make by going wide they'll keep on getting exclusives.
The feds are watching but they have real problems to deal with and content exclusives aren't a problem.