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Amazon can certainly be stopped...by the people that shop there.
If everyone that was frothing at the mouth every time Amazon raised prices, added double DRM or anything else to get people all worked up into a frothy frenzy would just stop buying stuff there that certainly would stop Amazon, and any other company. Yeah yeah people say they shop elsewhere or only buy DRM free books, however, strangely enough they also tend to be the ones frothing the most. I always voice my opinion with my wallet and I am not afraid to let the company or person know exactly why I do not buy their product. Case in point the Wife and I were at a farmers market today and were looking to buy a local wine, I proceeded to question the maker about the process and if it was organic. He said though not certified their growing practice was essentially organic. Then he told me they use RoundUp for weed control, at that point I told him I was going to buy a few bottles until he mentioned he used RoundUp. The moral is people should not be scared to let people know why they do not buy their products if they don't agree with the business practice. |
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Ladies, your view on Amazon is as myopic as Amazon itself. First of, English is the second (or third, has Spanish passed it?) most spoken language on Earth. Unless you have a domination in China you will never be the world dominator. I got a Sony because I wanted to read e-books in other languages than English as well, the Kindle simply didn't provide me with that opportunity, the Sony with support for e-pub does. On the Sony I read books in Swedish, Danish, Japanese and German. People who read in those, and other, languages will always prefer an e-book Reader other than something from the Kindle family. All other languages combined surpass 90% of the languages spoken - and read - on this planet.
Even Amazon doesn't seem to realize that, register a Kindle in the US or UK store and you will be limited to books in English (a few exceptions does exist but they are not worth discussing) despite Amazon having a presence in Germany, France and Spain. So let us loosen our girdles and look beyond the horizon of our own small little nook (pun intended) and realize that Amazon is not going to dominate the world of e-book Readers and as a consequence neither will they dominate the e-book market. |
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I find this whole subject somewhat odd. Amazon's the market leader right now, but that doesn't mean it will always be so. B&N/Nook, Google Ebooks, Sony, and Kobo aren't going anywhere anytime soon, and there are large parts of the world where Amazon doesn't rule the roost.
There was a time when GM held 60% of the domestic auto market, now it's 22%. Back in the 90s, Apple went crawling to Microsoft to beg them to keep making software for the Mac; today Apple is worth more than Microsoft. Things change. Don't panic. |
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While I agree, there's a caveat. The eco-system model makes it harder to change. Once you own piles of e-books from Amazon, are you likely to switch to Kobo, or vice-versa? Some will, but many won't. With a car, or a model of computer far newer than your previous one, you're almost starting from scratch each time.
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OTOH, my family has so much invested in Microsoft products (we're a Windows household), there's no way we would switch to an Apple product, even if we were so inclined to do so (which, on the whole, we're not. If my artist daughter ever stops being a luddite, maybe...)
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I have less than $20 in content invested in my devices, so it would be painless to switch platforms.
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Books were a customer acquisition tool, an excellent online experience was an acquisition tool, Prime was a customer acquisition tool, and the Fire wass a customer acquisition tool. You guys talk about customer acquisition as if it is some kind of trick or cheat. Business is about customer acquisition and retention and Amazon does both better than anyone else. Bezos uses different words to describe this...
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These would be better points if: (1) 80% of the e-book market weren't in the US; or (2) the market for people who speak 5 languages weren't so small; or (3) you weren't so condescending.
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