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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
It could be seen as a case study in monopolies. Amazon has a practical monopoly on ebook sales in the United States. Amazon does not notify customers of price drops on wishlist items.
Steam and GOG are competitors where they also battle with Microsoft and others. They do notify you when items on your wishlist are on sale.
And as mentioned, Amazon had some involvement with ereaderiq and then stopped. So it's not like nobody at Amazon ever thought of it.
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I'd call it more a study of what happens when your competition offers products perceived by many as inferior. If a "practical monopoly" means no more than that people choose to buy from you rather than your competitors then Amazon clearly has one. In the conventional use of he term clearly you can choose to buy most books and I think all tradpub books from others. Amazon will keep its so-called "practical monopoly" so long as readers continue to choose to bey from them rather than their competitors.