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Originally Posted by darryl
Your argument hinges not on Amazon's actual conduct at all, but on its hypothetical future possible conduct, no matter the probability of such conduct occurring.
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It hinges on Amazon's actual current conduct changing back to what it was in 2012, when it was difficult to buy, on Amazon, one of the presidential campaign books:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/1...ng-books/?_r=0
Some posters here think Amazon has no social responsibility to impartially promote and distribute books from a wide range of political points of view. I disagree there. But I also think that, over the past few years, Amazon has been acting responsibly in terms of freedom to read, with the possible exception of this site where their market share isn't so high:
http://www.amazon.cn/Kindle%E7%94%B5...node=116169071
What about 2016, in the US? Is it likely that Amazon will favor books by certain presidential candidates, out of either political or, more plausibly, profit concerns? I'm saying no. I think they learned their lesson when the Hachette situation gave Amazon so much mainstream media bad publicity.
If Amazon starts appearing to Feel the Bern, or, God-forbid, wanting to Make America Great Again, I'll start attacking them again on this board as I did a few years ago.