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Originally Posted by HarryT
All companies have a goal of trying to dominate their market, but should they succeed in doing so, and establishing an effective monopoly in that market, then laws are required to prevent them from exploiting that monopoly against the best interests of the consumer.
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Not all companies want to dominate the market; some are content to be one option among many, and trust that their features will draw enough paid attention to keep them in business. Not every mom-and-pop store wants to become Walmart (Tesco?); not every traveling circus dreams of growing into Disneyland.
I'm at Dreamwidth in part because they *don't* want to be the "biggest and best" social networking site on the web. They're not trying to replace Twitter or Myspace or even Livejournal whose software they're based on.
Baen, as far as I know, isn't trying to be the only bookseller online, or even the only publisher of science fiction. It'd like to be bigger, but not necessarily the only one.