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Originally Posted by netseeker
Amazon has done more to make ebooks commercially viable for amazon itself than all previous stakeholders combined.
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And for consumers. And for anyone selling non-DRM MOBI books, since their ereader supports those.
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I'm sure you know what amazon charges from authors and publishers in the affiliate program.
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Yes, it's extremely generous for authors. For publishers less so, but publishers are free to put up their own storefront and start selling MOBI books.
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Originally Posted by netseeker
Imho amazon already has too much market power (at least here in europe) and abuses this market power (acts like a monopolist) sometimes against authors and publishers.
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Go whine to the EU then. We're talking about ebooks here; they don't sell the Kindle in Europe.