I love the freedom of finding my books online, paper and electronic, And Amazon is currently ahead of the game in this. Fair enough, they saw the way and invested.
The publishers exercised buy up & cartel = monopoly. Then, of course, screwed the authors and everyone else to maximise their profits. Happily tech and Amazon have rendered their business model redundant.
Amazon will try and emulate with their own monopoly, its the way things are. but they're unlikely to achieve the stranglehold that their resentful successors enjoyed
Biting the hand that feeds IT
