>> "Why wouldn't we? There are hundreds of companies selling books, and you can start a new one with essentially nothing." If Amazon screws the publishers out

>> "Why wouldn't we? There are hundreds of companies selling books, and you can start a new one with essentially nothing." If Amazon screws the publishers out of business and begins publishing themselves our alternatives to Amazon would be reduced significantly. Then they have the power to increase prices for consumers because there's very little we can do. We can still use libraries and book shops but for new releases published by Amazon they could make themselves sole distributor.