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Originally Posted by leebase
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Hilarious. Frying pan and Fire.
Amazon has 92% of English language ebook market.
Apple for iPhone and iPad is a greedy 90% profit margin megacorp, one of the largest.
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Correct, and it was going to take an Apple-esque company to give Amazon competition. Doesn't matter if you personally like Apple's products or would use them.
Did the price of ebooks go down after Apple was smacked down by the courts?
Did competition flourish?
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No. The price of ebooks on non-Apple sites has hardly changed. There is even less competition now. No, book creators have no more leverage in their dealings with the tech companies?
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Originally Posted by leebase
Even if you hate BOTH Amazon and Apple....having two giant competing companies would give authors/publishers leverage. As it is now....you can't defy Amazon and make money in ebooks.
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Apple is a premium seller of phones, watches and tablets. They are nearly irrelevant as a bookseller. Oddly so is Google. Apple doesn't do an ereader and if they did it would only work with Apple Books, would be hard to put PD titles on and Annotations would only be exportable via an Apple program (forget Linux) or Apple Cloud. It would also be the most expensive.
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Originally Posted by leebase
Amazon was and is the threat to a healthy competitive ebook marketplace.
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True, but Apple isn't even in the same market. Cf even Amazon Fire, Apple iPad, vs Android. Amazon did do a phone but it died. Apple and Amazon are not competitors.
Since before even 2007 when they released the Kindle. Apple and Google, for different reasons, will have zero effect on Amazon paper and ebook dominance. I think in USA online sales Amazon has 80% of the market of paper books.