They started early when few other retailers saw the market for ebooks.
The same publishers who whine about Amazon's position in the ebook world could have supported somebody else selling ebooks on-line.
Why didn't they?
Answer, the publishers (save for Baen) didn't see ebooks as important.
Getting into the ebook marketplace isn't as hard as it would be to get into the dead tree book market place.
Sure Amazon has a strong lead, but Amazon can't prevent somebody else from joining the race.
Also, if the ebook isn't a Baen book, Amazon is my second choice with B&N being my first choice.
Bahzellstudent wrote:While on balance, Amazon have been good for the book-buying public, these things can be pushed too far; we see the same thing in the UK where milk prices have been used by the big supermarkets as a loss leader and as a result, most milk farmers are now losing money.
in the world of eBooks, there is a virtual monopoly by Amazon and Kindle - and whenever a market is controlled by one person (whether that be published, distributor or anyone else) problems will eventually arise