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Originally Posted by darryl
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.
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And this then explains why Amazon has no interest in telling people when prices on their wishlist have dropped.
Please don't misunderstand me. I do not think it is their duty to do so. Whatever the reasons behind their monopoly on the ebook market, it can be used to explain their behavior vs. Steam and GOG.