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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Maybe the book part of broken-up Google would change. Maybe it would go back into the eInk reader business. But despite that, I agree this has close to nothing to do with eBooks -- because the effect on eBooks of such a breakup is so unpredictable.
Plus the biggest questions in my mind here are indeed political rather than literary. Does Europe really have the raw power to force the breakup of a big multi-national headquartered elsewhere? I'm not sure, but, probably, yes. Would it be a good idea to tweak the American elephant this way? Probably not. |
No, but Bill Gates described the MS antitrust lawsuit as a huge distraction, and it would likely be the same for Google. The political winds it would produce would be non-trivial.
What's going on in Europe? Is the political and ideological polarization that afflicts the US spreading there as well?