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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
At the risk of my head being piled up beneath a truckload of calumny ..... is this the first time Amazon have simply bought out a competitor and blatently asset-stripped it like this ?
With a main difference to the "normal" practice - that of not selling off a part of the operation, but just shutting it down to reduce competition ?
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To be fair, it hasn't be asset-stripped. It's just that one feature of Book Depository has been removed (selling of eBooks).
Amazon hasn't really been in the business of buying competition only to shut it down. It usually is its own competition, such as owning ABE Books. Or owning companies you normally wouldn't associate with Amazon per se, such as IMDB.