Amazon.com's market position as defined by a recent Fortune 500 ranking was 272 .....was formerly 303.
Yet in terms of book sales, c.d.sales and related services like a blog for unpublished authors called gather, which includes a blog, and membership by anyone who wields a pen, in these areas particularly, they seem to have the market.
They also have a self publishing house for authors not covered by the big publishing houses.
Reviews of books and music is a big focus of Amazons since it makes its money from sales of those.
I am not sure in the book sales market if they have major competition, perhaps Bloomsbury, or educational publishers like Oxford University press, but it seems unlikely.
Yet in terms of book sales, c.d.sales and related services like a blog for unpublished authors called gather, which includes a blog, and membership by anyone who wields a pen, in these areas particularly, they seem to have the market.
They also have a self publishing house for authors not covered by the big publishing houses.
Reviews of books and music is a big focus of Amazons since it makes its money from sales of those.
I am not sure in the book sales market if they have major competition, perhaps Bloomsbury, or educational publishers like Oxford University press, but it seems unlikely.