You think they have your interests at heart? You think that once they’ve driven out all the brick-and-mortar stores, from Barnes and Noble to Inkwood Books, that they’ll keep prices low? If so, I’d like to sell you mineral rights in Costa Rica.

And our Justice Department carryied Amazon’s water for them, helping them to build monopoly.

Plainly, Amazon’s behavior didn’t resemble that of a retailer laser-focused on serving consumers. It resembled the behavior of a cable company fighting with a TV network over transmission fees by cutting off its viewers’ access to the network’s programming. You want to buy your books from a company that models itself on your cable provider? Me neither. – Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120912,0,1949778.column