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Originally Posted by darryl
So Amazon was "a monopolistic company" and the illegal publishing cartel members are just suppliers? Even if you were right about Amazon being a monopoly and a harmful one it did not give the cartel a license to break the law, as the Courts found. More efficient and innovative businesses gut the business models of their competitors and even suppliers all the time. It is called competition. In fact, one could argue that Apple and the Publishers sought to gut the business model of Amazon by price fixing, thereby eliminating competition at the retail level. That was an illegal price fixing conspiracy, not competition.
Traditional publishers are going to be with us for quite a while in some form or another, but they have already had to change and are experimenting with further change, in response to various factors including Amazon's Indie market.
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Amazon did not have a monopoly. Sony was also selling eInk Readers and eBooks.