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Originally Posted by khalleron
I've been a customer since the site was just a text list of book titles and ISBN numbers, so I'm at least equal to you on that, but I still find some of their recent moves disturbing. Everything they're doing to try to monopolize the American ebook market, even to the point of denying Kindle owners the right to buy ebooks from one of their own subsidiaries, tells me that Amazon is well on the path to becoming evil.
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Yes, well, I also happily use Google (monopoly on the web search market), Microsoft (monopoly on the PC OS market), etc. Ebooks were still on the path of obscurity before Amazon got involved; Windows 95 was key in making the Internet easily accessible to the masses; Google made it possible to actually grok the huge amount of information available on the web.