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• Qwertious 6y ago
  To add to that, Kindle store is actually two things combined: 1. An eBook distributor 2. A "PayPal replacement" that let's you send $$$ to authors. They theoretically have a monopoly on #1, but in practice piracy exists and potentially does it better. They don't and can't stop people from setting up a platform for sending $$$ to authors - in fact, you could even have a database of authors, their books and the RRP of those books, and an embeddable button to pay the author an RRP's worth. That could then be embedded on arbitrary piracy sites. The piracy sites could be shut down, but realistically the pirate sites are too portable to be shut down for long, and private trackers make some sites impractical to shut down at all.