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Originally Posted by barryem
I wonder if Amazon will really let B&N go under. As soon as they go out of business Amazon is the only place to buy books. People already call them a monopoly, correct or not, and if B&N goes away that'll increase mightily.
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Good point, and I hope you are right.
Reminds me of
this good book explaining how, among other things, how A & P, when the world's largest retailer, avoided promotions likely to bankrupt competitors. However, according to what I'm now reading,
Amazon is a MBA-heavy company in a world where typical MBA's consider worrying about the welfare of competitors almost as absurd as welcoming a union.
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Originally Posted by barryem
Anybody remember when Apple was about to go under and Microsoft made a very large cash investment in them, probably with that same issue in mind. That saved Apple and it probably was as important to the welfare of Microsoft.
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Microsoft is culturally different. Also, they started out as an
Apple supplier and have long gotten a lot of revenue from selling Microsoft Office software to run on Apple hardware. So it's more natural for them to support Apple.