With those two business units, Amazon can then subsidize short term loss making business strategies and M&A that focus on gaining an eventually obtaining a monopoly advantage such as grocery, general brick and mortar retail, shipping and logistics, tablets, etc.
The other companies in technology focus on PAAS, self driving cars and VR, etc. and haven't used their profit margins to extend into the real world thus far.
Is the 50% market share really necessary to claim who's a monopoly?
Maybe it's time to re evaluate the definition of monopoly.
In a monopoly, a single seller controls or dominates the supply of goods and services.
The term you may be looking for is monopsony.
In a monopsony, a single buyer controls or dominates the demand for goods and services.
The game has been exactly the same whether it is online or offline. You are simply swapping form Nationwide Stores to Nationwide Logistics.
Surely he could just post a PDF for paid download and have readers send the PDF to kindle if they really need to read it there.
Calling a book "unreported truths..." while things are rapidly changing is misleading at best
Refusing to publish content related to COVID because nobody has the time and resources to go through them all is the best you can do. If they just let people publish the story would be “Amazon doing nothing about COVID misinformation spreading through their store.”
There's a pattern here. He wants to be in the news actively. So, he picks up one thing or another. If you are not paying for marketing then you have to do it yourself.
Here's a though experiment, reductio ad absurdum, if you will.
Say you like Bezos' politics and agree with the stuff he wants to censor. Say tomorrow Bezos is run over by a bus and, through a weirdest twist of fate in history (bear with me on this one) Richard Spencer takes his place, complete with his own, very different editorial preferences.
Would you still agree that Amazon, as a company, has an unimpeded right to censor speech then? And if not, you need to think very carefully why you're _not_ against giving them this power now.
Not in Germany.
I sell books worldwide on Amazon, and the number of titles that are banned in countries (not just Germany, BTW) is pretty astounding.
And it's mostly not Hitler stuff, either.
Also, every time a rebuttal starts with "so", the rest is an attempt at mind reading. Those are always unsuccessful.
