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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

Amazon's US market share in eBooks is roughly that same as that of Standard Oil when it 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

For $0.99 you can get a much better version from Amazon...of course, if you are ok with reading a badly OCR'd copy to save less than a dollar, that's your choice. I'd rather pay for a copy that's easier to read...especially when it costs less than a bottle of water. http://smile.amazon.com/History-Stan...Oil+%281904%29

Shari