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Originally Posted by wodin
You don't believe that Amazon does not already charge all that the market will bear consistent with increasing it's market share?
It is Amazon who is shifting the liability for it's negligence. They negligently allowed their marketing apparatus to distribute copyrighted material without the owner's consent. Instead of stepping up and acknowledging (and paying for) their negligence they are attempting to mitigate their damages by (possibly illegally) removing personally owed content from their customers personally owned devices.
Again, this is an issue for the courts to decide, and unless someone, regardless of motive, brings the issue to the courts, it will not be decided. This decision could be very far reaching in these times of instant communications.
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I have no idea about their business plan.
But there have been lots of rumors about them burning money in the beginning.
And right now, they usually are about 15% cheaper than the others.
Probably we don't have to worry about their future and wealth.
Analysts estimate up to $ 5bn in 2010 for Amazon with Kindles and eBooks.
Of course they aim for dominating the market. But on one hand, there'll be always independet suppliers of content. And if Amazon should decide, not supporting PDF anymore for example, within an instant there will be competitors. So they'll most likely continue to support "open" formats which enables you to purchase elsewhere.
And if they're profitable already now, I don't expect them increasing the prices when doubling their marketshare.