Thread: It is the Worst of Times for Reading EBooks
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Old 06-10-2019, 04:04 PM   #70
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
A deal is a deal, no doubt. But a single seller of ebooks isn’t healthy. We should want those little boutique websites AND Amazon deal watching sites. I guess I’m trying to point out that Apple and the Big 5 lost....but WE didn’t win.
Of course, you can buy from Amazon, Kobo, B&N, Apple, Google Books and Smashwords (too bad MS dropped out before they really made a go of it).

Don't get me wrong. More sites would be better and if the books and readers were separate, that would be better as well.

But I do wonder if the way things are right now is partly what encourages such steep discounts in pricing? (An effort to increase the book's ranking on Amazon.)
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