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IBNobody, on 12 April 2012 - 04:13 AM, said:
Hmmm.......
This NYTimes article gives some good counterpoint against the anti-trust lawsuit.
http://www.nytimes.c...ml?pagewanted=1
Some of the views expressed in that article:
Lawsuit Victory
=> Amazon setting lower prices for e-books
=> Greater cost difference between books and e-books
=> Fewer books sold
=> Fewer bookstores
=> Monopoly for Amazon
Amazon is awesome at undercutting their competition's prices. Just look at how quickly they price-match their Android apps when the apps go on sale on Google Play.
Because Amazon can undercut Apple in the e-book market, they will dominate that mobile section. Will this hurt Apple and the iPad? It depends on whether or not iPad users use their device to read books (using the iPad Kindle app) or if those users prefer a more dedicated e-book solution.
This NYTimes article gives some good counterpoint against the anti-trust lawsuit.
http://www.nytimes.c...ml?pagewanted=1
Some of the views expressed in that article:
Lawsuit Victory
=> Amazon setting lower prices for e-books
=> Greater cost difference between books and e-books
=> Fewer books sold
=> Fewer bookstores
=> Monopoly for Amazon
Amazon is awesome at undercutting their competition's prices. Just look at how quickly they price-match their Android apps when the apps go on sale on Google Play.
Because Amazon can undercut Apple in the e-book market, they will dominate that mobile section. Will this hurt Apple and the iPad? It depends on whether or not iPad users use their device to read books (using the iPad Kindle app) or if those users prefer a more dedicated e-book solution.
That sounds wrong to me. How can Amazon be a monopoly for ebooks when theres a lot of other ebook sellers. B&N and Sony for one. Seems to me that a Lawsuit Victory would now enable me to shop around and buy an ebook from whichever is selling it cheaper. As is it is now, its the same price, whether its Amazon, B&N or Sony I shop with. All the ebook sellers can now compete with each other on price.
