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Originally Posted by fjtorres
At this point they would probably object to Amazon buying Borders and Borders is dead and buried.
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Agreed. Here's the book source DC insiders seem to, at least when in public, favor:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?316542-...rose-bookstore
And for those who think legal guidelines are all that matter, it can be seen here that one company having a 50 percent market share in a product automatically gets branded a merger and acquisitions problem, even if the other 50 percent is completely divided between very small businesses:
http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/gu...g-2010.html#5b
To see what I mean, search in the above link for "Herfindahl-Hirschman Index" and do the arithmetic. 50% times 50% gives an index of 2,500, meaning a "highly concentrated market." Border's 0% times 0% won't change this. And Amazon's eBook market share, and eInk reader market share, is more than 50%.