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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Ah yes, the standard internet debating tactics. Mock and heckle rather than discuss facts. The legal definition is straight forward and easy to find out. The legal definition is that a monopoly is the ability to control the price or exclude a competitor for the market.
http://business-law.freeadvice.com/b...poly_power.htm
Yes, we have been through all this before. I point out the legal definition, which you then ignore in favor of simply trying to mock or heckle, and then claim that I don't provide pointers or links. It's all very tiresome, but then again, when you don't bother to learn the facts, rhetorical tricks is all you are left with. |
Well, I have nothing against discussing facts. Glad to see you finally provided a link to the rulebook you are playing.
Although I'm not picky about links -- unless you are quoting someone else, stating your opinion/definition/what-have-you is sufficient for me.
And according to your link, Amazon will "will probably [not] be considered a monopoly" since it is [not] at 75% market share.
I would skew the results against Amazon by including Indie, but that isn't a "relative market", and no Indiepub competitors have filed suit.
Maybe if they did, Amazon would have a problem -- I think they probably have over 75% (more like mid to high 90s) in the Indiepub market.
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If we are going by "ability to control the price", Amazon has been successfully bullied by the BWMs into raising the prices, perhaps Amazon should file suit against the BWMs because *they* are a monopoly.
(Already done
and it seems the accusation was true. At least, s/monopoly/cartel/g but otherwise the shoe fits.)
"exclude a competitor from the market" -- oh, please, do explain how Amazon has been or even can do that.
I am pretty sure Amazon has several competitors, and they aren't going anywhere (Kobo isn't growing but it isn't going away either; B&N will take a while to die properly, but only because they still haven't broken into the ebook market on sheer incompetence
).
Dr. Drib's granny's dog isn't going to be opening an Amazon competitor anytime soon, but that isn't because of Amazon specifically.