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Originally Posted by Blue Tyson
Don't think so. US sellers might get to be be the biggest (already are, anyway). They certainly aren't going to compete very well with French, German, Japanese, Chinese, etc. sellers.
They'll cause the poms and Australians or kiwis etc. a few problems - which might leave them sellling more of the books that the yanks don't sell, but hardly is going to kill them all off.
It may diminish those who have a large percentage of their business repackaging or importing yank books and marking them up a lot - but so what? American companies have crushed those in other industries before, and will again.
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Don't get me wrong, I would love it if there were no regional restrictions, since I have to go to great lengths to avoid them now. My point was that in the end the cheapest price will win. And for the moment, Amazon is in the best position because they have the lowest cost (they can pressure publishers). In countries like China few, if anybody, are paying for any downloads (except by having their computer added to the worldwide spam zombie network). And it will be years before that changes. Anyway, I was referring to the worldwide market for English books.