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**janeseymore09092** · 05-04-2012, 03:11 AM

Amazon's choice was to be frozen out of the market or pay more, and for a time Amazon was indeed frozen out. Apple cornered the market through agreements with publishers. This damaged Amazon's business and gave Apple a toehold to exploit.

I think you've re-written history there. Amazon renegotiated with 4 of 5 publishers before iBooks even launched, so they were hardly frozen out, and Apple has never had much more than 10% of the eBook market, so they didn't 'corner the market' either.

05-04-2012, 03:11 AM	#15
janeseymore09092 Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 410 Senior Member	Amazon's choice was to be frozen out of the market or pay more, and for a time Amazon was indeed frozen out. Apple cornered the market through agreements with publishers. This damaged Amazon's business and gave Apple a toehold to exploit. I think you've re-written history there. Amazon renegotiated with 4 of 5 publishers before iBooks even launched, so they were hardly frozen out, and Apple has never had much more than 10% of the eBook market, so they didn't 'corner the market' either.
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