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Originally Posted by HarryT
The textbook example is "Standard Oil" in the US in the late 19th and early 20th century. It did precisely that until it was forcibly broken up by the US Supreme Court in 1911. It was the business practices of Standard Oil which led to the introduction of anti-trust legislation in the US.
In the process, it made John D. Rockefeller the richest man in the world.
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So some people are all foaming at the mouth about what happened over 100 years ago that hasn't been allowed to happen since because the US govt stepped in to stop it from happening with Bell, IBM, Microsoft, etc?
Some of you aren't giving the govt, and us consumers enough credit to think and act for ourselves. There is simply too much competition out there with different books to buy that DON'T come from the big 6 with more springing up all the time. I haven't bought one in years not only due to expense but also lack of choice, variety.
If you can't live without having to buy books only from the big 6, if you are not willing to expand, grow, adapt, change and find other affordable books to read, then you are just as bad as the big 6 and deserve to be miserable if they eventually fail due to their greed and unwillingness to adapt to the new world of publishing & book buying.