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Originally Posted by charleski
And yet that's precisely their aim with the Kindle, and has been all along.
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It may be their aim, but they've been very generous to indie authors--they don't demand any exclusivity, they pay decent royalties and they started an opportunity that has been hard to beat. They also allow any publisher that wants to post with DRM. That right there is not much of an attempt to be a monopoly (although I'm not disputing that they are aggressive in going after market-share.) The DRM, from what I read, was at the behest of the big publishers. I think they are able to turn it off if they want as well (and turn on or off the text-to-speech.)
Amazon also offers the opportunity for authors to restrict geographically or not.
So...while they may wish to dominate, they have opened up the field as well.