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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
You said the fact that Amazon doesn't use distributors to sell the ebooks that they have exclusive rights to doesn't make them a monopoly because people can buy pbooks editions from other distributors or borrow from the library. Now think about the power company situation and how you would react if somebody told that you can't say that they have a monopoly because you can install solar panels.
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I don't know much about the Amazon exclusivity situation, but regarding the analogy I'm not sure I would consider solar panels a "viable substitute" to standard electric utility, which it would need to be to rule out the monopoly.