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The International Game Developers Association in an e-mail to members on Thursday took issue with Amazon for requiring developers to permanently lower their prices on Amazon if they offer a discount, even temporarily, on another outlet. "Amazon has little incentive not to use a developer's content as a weapon with which to capture marketshare from competing app stores," the IGDA said in its note. The group also said Amazon's steep discounting of games hurts developers by unnecessarily lowering prices on games that are selling well. That echoed book publishers' accusations in 2010 that the low prices Amazon wanted to charge for books on its Kindle e-reader, even for bestsellers, cheapened the value of books. Amazon, which last month launched its "Appstore" with games developed using Google's Android software, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last month, Amazon raised the ire of music labels when it launched a service that lets customers store songs and play them on a variety of phones and computers without warning them first. Amazon executive are meeting with music industry companies on Thursday, sources told Reuters this week. While the IGDA said Amazon has been willing to address its concerns, it said that could change "the minute Amazon's Appstore becomes so big that Android developers have no choice but to distribute their content via the store." But Amazon's market position could prove irresistible. "The Amazon ecosystem is controlled where we don't find too many pirated versions of our games or malware games, so for the consumers, it will be a safer place," Gameloft Chief Executive Michel Guillemot told Reuters in an interview last month in reference to Amazon's store. Amazon shares were down 1.1 percent in morning trading. (Reporting by Phil Wahba and Liana B. Baker, editing by Dave Zimmerman) Technology Media Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (1) socratesfoot wrote: Have to agree with Amazon here. If Android game developers don’t like the terms then market your software through Google App Store. If you don’t like that then market it interdependently. This is like the music industry, they have other options. 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