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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The only way to stop this exclusivity is for enough people who would purchase these exclusive eBooks to tell the author that yes, I want to buy your books, but no, I will not when they are under some sort of exclusive deal.
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You are probably correct, but I'm not sure the general public will be vocal enough, let alone care enough, for this type of protest to actually take effect.
Of course, there already are such imbalances, as there are many books available for one platform but not another. I would imagine that unless Amazon utterly dominates (as in, >75% of market share) -- which I don't see as likely, but who knows? -- such imbalances probably won't last indefinitely anyway, especially with everyone else consolidating on epub.
So while exclusivity isn't a good thing, I'd say the real novelty here is that the author is cutting out the publisher. Separately there's the question of whether Simon & Schuster are just going to let this go, or actually take action to protect what they may assert are
their exclusive rights to publish these particular titles in electronic formats.