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Originally Posted by GeoffC
...I would have put Amazon first in the queue.
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Why? What would Amazon have to gain other than cries of stifling the competition. Look how they quickly backed down on TTS since it became an embarrassment for no real gain since let us be honest, TTS is still mostly useless, unless you truly need it for disabilities
Amazon bought Abe because Abe had a very extensive network of used book sellers especially *outside* the US. Inside the US, Amazon already dominated the used book market, so no comparison here since for now Amazon does not sell ebooks outside the US and when they will do, Kindle store will do very well, no network of sellers needed.
I would speculate that the most likely next big announcements will be Mobipocket closing (whenever Amazon is ready to sell ebooks overseas, Mobipocket lost its usefulness) or Sony and Borders doing a deal of a kind or another and involving ebooks too