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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Yeah but all that's really needed is a delay, in order to acheive monopoly.
Look at it this way, Lexcycle was threatening to become a viable online distribution channel for publishers that didn't want to use Amazon. It isn't any longer.
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Sure... but that's a long way from monopoly, considering the advancement of ePub, the many other formats, the wealth of open-source conversion apps, and the already-established internet-based distribution channels.
The most this could accomplish is to create two global markets: The United States; and Everybody Else. And as long as there are other formats out there, the U.S. market won't be Amazon's monopoly for quite some time.