Thread: Legal web site: "Please stop calling Amazon a monopoly"
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Old 10-15-2014, 08:21 PM   #13
SteveEisenberg
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
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. . . Amazon is not Standard Oil. . . .
Amazon's US market share, in eBooks, is roughly the same as that of Standard Oil, in refined oil, when it was broken up for being an illegal monopoly.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffberc...y-the-numbers/

I'm not saying Amazon should be broken up. I am saying that 2/3 market share is enough for the word monopoly to be commonly applied.

Thinking that I now I should read Ida Tarbell's History of Standard Oil (1904) to see if there are other similarities, I just checked Amazon.com and found they wanted $5.99 to Whispernet this public domain title to my Kindle. So I got it from Open Library:

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7057...rd_Oil_Company

I wonder if Standard Oil ever had a Gazelle Project:

http://www.businessinsider.com/sadis...azelle-2013-10
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