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Originally Posted by HarryT
Any manufacturer has a "monopoly" over its own products - eg, Kelloggs has a monopoly on Cornflakes; if you want to sell Cornflakes, you have to deal with Kelloggs and accept whatever terms they wish to impose on you. I don't see that publishers are any different in that regard.
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Right. Because books are directly comparable to cereals. They're both mass-produced and all that. (Do you really want to argue that Twilight and Harry Potter are interchangeable products?)
Anyway, I'm not really sure why your analogy applies. My point was that a 'mother company' can control so many products that you are practically unable to boycot them, after which you reply that "if you don't a product from a certain company, just go to another company". Sure, but that was hardly the point I was making.
Secondly, manufacturers often only have a de facto monopoly over their
trademarks/logos, and not over actual products. There are more than enough knock-off Armani (or w/e) products that are of comparable quality, only lacking the official logo.