Annie Lowrey, in "Amazon is Not a Monopoly," stakes out the middle ground:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...-monopoly.html
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None of this is to say that Amazon should not face new regulations to force it to treat its workers better. None of this is to say that Amazon could not become a monopoly by pushing out or buying up more of its e-commerce rivals. None of this is to say that its harassment of Hachette is right or should be legal or should not face some serious pushback from the government and consumers. None of this is to say, either, that our legal framework should not view seemingly benign monopolies, like Google, with anything other than skepticism.
But Amazon being a shitty, vicious competitor and Amazon being a monopoly are hardly the same thing.
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