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Old 02-06-2010, 12:54 PM   #296
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson View Post
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.
No, I wouldn't disagree with you at all about that; I'm in complete agreement that the large publishers have a monopoly over their books. My only point was that this is not an abnormal situation; it happens in all areas of commerce, so there's nothing unusual about it occurring in publishing, too. Are you suggesting that it's a bad thing?
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