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Originally Posted by HarryT
What may be good for the individual may not be good for society. It could be argued that, although it's beneficial for you personally to be able to buy cheap books from Amazon, if the result of that is that all the small independent bookshops go out of business, society as a whole is the poorer for it.
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For new paper books, Amazon demands a massive discount from the publisher before they will stock them. The only reason they can demand such discounts is because of the immense power they now have over the distribution of books. Tesco (and probably Walmart in America) have the same power over food producers.