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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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Amazon put everything in motion by targeting the most profitable section of book selling and making a loss leader out of it. All the NYT Best Sellers, available day 1, for $9.99
Everything that followed, flowed from that.