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Well all the same things would apply to any independent ebook store, it would just hurt them massively more than it does Amazon..

Perhaps the stance to take is that it was bad for consumers in the long-term, because monopolies aren't a good thing.

This doesn't affect only Amazon, it affects also all smaller online book stores

They are not sports teams.

We should be rooting for better outcomes for consumers. Not picking between which megacorp is less bad.

>We should be rooting for better outcomes for consumers. Not picking between which megacorp is less bad.

I will argue that pointing out the hypocrisy of a megacorp complaining about the anti-competitive behaviour of another magacorp, when it engages in the same type of behaviour but at a much bigger scale, is a pro-consumer move.