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The article raises two issues:
1. Whether B&M bookstores can survive in the coming era of ebook dominance.
2. What would be the effect of Amazon continuing to dominate the ebook market and maybe extending that dominance into monopoly control


With respect to (1), Mike Shatzkin argues( and I agree) that physical book stores are destined to go the way of record stores, regardless of Amazon's share of the ebook market. That will be incredibly disruptive for everyone in the book industry, but that's what will happen.

With respect to 2, I hope Amazon doesn't become the One Big Pipe. I think consumers always suffer in those situations. My experience dealing with Comcast just confirms this.
I hope that b&n survives and Apple does something amazing and magical in the ebook market but otherwise, Amazon's dominance in the ebook market looks inevitable.