I wanted to buy "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross, but it is out of print. You can get a copy on ebay for about $100 but I didn't feel like doing that. Then I found out that it's available on the internet in PDF. I downloaded it, emailed it to my Kindle account and had it available in seconds. Total cost to me was 60 cents (fee for Kindle conversion performed by Amazon).
Great book by the way.
Ooh, cool. Amazon has an obvious edge over all competitors because of its having already been in the book biz.
Which means, Amazon’d better stay on the right side of the street thugs who are attempting to take over every aspect of American life, otherwise, antitrust lawyers by the dozen will be all over its ass.