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Originally Posted by leebase
Amazon killed them.
Fictionwise and the like were no real competition to Amazon in the first place. If you think anybody was going to undercut Amazon on pricing over time, you are dreaming.
Amazon uses predatory pricing...selling the best selling books at a loss as incentive to sell their kindles. No business is going to willingly allow another business to turn their money making products into full time loss leaders, devaluing their products.
<beats dead horse>
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Sorry, but that's just not true that Amazon killed them. Apple and the price fix 5 killed them when they changed the pricing for eBooks. Fictionwise and BooksOnBoard were popular sites back in the day. Amazon did not make it so eBooks could not be discounted by the stores. Apple and Co. did that.