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Old 04-27-2009, 08:13 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
The question here is why Amazon took over Stanza, today. The only reason that makes sense, is to control the spread of non Amazon retail channels. And competitors to Amazon are certainly not insignificant today.
More than just retail, this gives them control over existing and future free channels too - FeedBooks, Manybooks, Gutenberg, MobileRead are all ebook sources that Amazon would be happy to stifle. But I don't think that's going to happen if some of us have anything to do with it.
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