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Re:Goodreads Is Broken by bredren on Saturday September 07, 2019 @09:29PM (#20907962)
Wow. Then how do you explain the malaise? Could it be ebooks are a fraction of that?
Re:Goodreads Is Broken by CydeWeys on Saturday September 07, 2019 @10:46PM (#20908288)
E-books are doing pretty well.

It's a flat-out monopoly. Amazon has a strangehold on the market. If you only had to compete on the hardware, then you'd see competitors. But you need to compete with the entire market ecosystem, which is very hard.

It's like the mobile phone industry, except instead of two unassailable players there's only a single one.