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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Most Favored Nation clauses, AFAIK, act to lower prices, not to raise them. (i.e. the source must sell the product to its 'most favored' retailer at the lowest price that it sells the product to any other retailer). It's true that lowering prices can lead to market dominance-but how is that sort of dominance a bad thing? The 'evil' of monopolies is that they either stifle innovation or lead to higher prices. I can't see this doing either.
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I mentioned MFN clauses because they may hinder competition. And competition usually lowers prices and encourages innovation.
Amazon in the past had to compete. Now there are only a couple of companies left that have the financial means to go head-to-head with Amazon. I'm guessing Google and Apple. Amazon doesn't have to work as hard although I think they will for now.
The next year or so will be interesting.