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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
I'm not talking about that. What I replied to was:
Did you find ebooks that were published exclusively by Amazon on sites of other distributors?
I don't know of any titles exclusively published by Amazon. If there are titles that were exclusively published by Amazon then it was the author or holder of the book rights who chose to exclusively publish with Amazon. That was their choice. They didn't have to work with Amazon. They could have gone elsewhere. That is my point. In no way is Amazon, the company, a monopoly, because people have choices.
The definition of a monopoly is a lack of choice. As long as people can chose a competitor there is no monopoly.
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I agree.
Also as long as their are books available in any format there is no monopoly.
Any author exclusively selling their own books could more reasonably charged with being a monopoly. And any store selling their own brand name or restaurant with a unique recipe.
Not saying it couldn't happen, but untill you cannot legally acquire most books in any format elsewhere, the word monopoly does not in any way apply.
Helen