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I find this argument overly theoretical and unsupported. Book selling isn't a natural monopoly. If Amazon dumped books and forced out everyone, can they really then use that monopoly status to raise prices? The market has a fairly low barrier to entry and any attempt to have high margin pricing would be met with new competition pretty quickly.


> can they really then use that monopoly status to raise prices?

No, they can use this monopoly status to extract data or otherwise bully consumers (which they do). Private monopolies are inherently bad.


Yeah I agree with that. I just don't think they can dump books effectively.




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