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Originally Posted by sirbruce
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.
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Google gained a 'monopoly' on search by being the best engine. MS has used monopolistic practices and been successfully sued, at least in Europe. Those are apples and oranges. Amazon's ebook practices are much closer to MS's than to Google's - so while I will 'happily' use Google, I only grudgingly use MS because Apples are overpriced and I'm not computer savvy enough to use Linux.
And if Amazon does succeed in monopolizing ebooks, I'll ditch the ebooks (even though I've been a long-time user and even a one-time publisher), because there's just plainly no need for them to do what they're doing.