[mcphage]

> I too wish there was someone who could compete with amazon, the thing is nobody seems to actually even try?

Apple was starting to compete, got sued by the US government for it, and decided they didn’t need to bother.

[goosedragons]

I mean, they did it illegally. Their fault for doing it that way. Kobo is competing with Amazon pretty well.

US market is heavily skewed in Amazon's favor though.

[BobaFloutist]

Sure doesn't help that unless you go out of your way to buy a third-party device, there's platform lock-in, which was never an issue with physical publishing.