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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
… and the control 80% of the ebook market (is that the US or overall?) I could see the government giving them a critical eye.
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As Amazon makes it harder and harder to remove DRM to read books purchased there on non-Amazon devices, I do think that eventually it will be undeniable that Amazon's monopoly is bad for readers.
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1) I think these are all USA only figures. Amazon non-online book sales are negligible outside USA.
In USA there are ebook sales of significance for Apple and Barnes & Noble, I think Amazon poor for non-english ebooks outside USA and more than once seen claims that Amazon English language ebook sales worldwide are 90%+.
Oddly Google's playstore does badly on ebook sales. I suspect a combination of visibility and readers not liking Google's invasive payment system (hard to remove them from paypal for instance).
2) If Amazon had a monopoly eventually there would be no other ereaders. See why Sony exited from the market. However if you have an Amazon eInk Kindle it's no harder now than 10 years ago to remove DRM?