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Originally Posted by HarryT
I am perfectly well aware of what a monopoly is, and Amazon are not one, no matter how much you try to distort the facts.
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Legal definition is not the same as common usage. As the article that I pointed to says, there is no hard point where one can say this is a monopoly and this isn't. There is no distortion going on. Anti Trust law in the United States is rather imprecise and tends to depend on how one defines the market as well as if the judge is buying the prosecutor's interpretation. I've seen figures ranging from Amazon controlling 80+ percent of the market to 65 percent. That is close enough to a monopoly in the book market that a clever prosecutor could at least make a case.