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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
Go Bill!
I always believed that mono in monopoly meant something entirely different.
But now I know better, and I am all for more monopolies like that.
Gooo Bill!!
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Its a question of how you look at the ebook market. Yes, it is true that if the market is looked at as a whole, then there is no monopoly in the ebook market. However, that is not the only, or even the best way to look at it. If someone buys a kindle, they are no longer part of the larger ebook market -- at least with respect to books with DRM. For those books, there is only one place they can go. At a certain point, they are going to have enough books that they will not be willing to leave the Amazon ecosystem because they will loose the books they have bought (Assuming they can't or won't strip the DRM).
I wonder how people would react if car companies started building cars that needed an additive that only the individual car company could provide for the car to work?
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Bill