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I have to admit, Amazon would be a hard one for my family to give up. This shows the danger of monopolies. Amazon also owns the formerly great Abebooks (used books). Amazon and Barnes and Noble are probably 85% of the market. I guess Books-A-Million is an option for books.


9 posted on 07/05/2019 7:59:00 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("...a choice between Woke-fevered Democrats and Koch-funded Republicans is insufficient."-Mark Steyn)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Amazon and Barnes and Noble are probably 85% of the market. I guess Books-A-Million is an option for books.

Nothing stops you from ordering direct from the publisher these days. Cut out the middle man.
25 posted on 07/05/2019 10:21:13 AM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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I was shocked, unbelieving and then cynically accepting when ABEbooks was taken over by the evil Amazon.

An old SF novel by the socialist American Frederik Pohl had something like “food” , “fuel” etc. left as conglomerates monopolized everything. I thought it was so stupid I didn’t read the novel (JEM).

In later years I keep seeing it true (Kraft and a few others have all kinds of food items, ——Look at the list of Gillette items —not simply for shaving but lots of stuff-—and even my eye drops were taken over by their competitor recently).


33 posted on 07/05/2019 3:40:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we afought for theire finished.)
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