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On 06/01/2014 01:54, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> (However, to the extent that Amazon has gained monopoly power over the book
>> market, that reasoning may not apply. Amazon is not *technically* a
>> monopoly, but they are clearly well on the way to becoming one, at which
>> point the customer has no effective choice and the market is no longer
>> free.)
>
> They don't need a monopoly on the whole book market, just on specific
> books - which they did have, in the cited case. I actually asked the
> author (translator, really - it's a translation of "Alice in
> Wonderland") how he would prefer me to buy, as there are some who sell
> on Amazon and somewhere else. There was no alternative to Amazon, ergo
> no choice and the market was not free. Like so many things, one choice
> ("I want to buy Ailice's Anters in Ferlielann") mandates another
> ("Must buy through Amazon").
>
> I don't know what it cost Amazon to ship me two copies of a book, but
> still probably less than they got out of me, so they're still ahead.
> Even if they lost money on this particular deal, they're still way
> ahead because of all the people who decide it's not worth their time
> to spend an hour or so trying to get a replacement. So yep, this
> policy is serving Amazon fairly well.
>
> ChrisA
>
So much for my "You never know, we might even end up with a thread
whereby the discussion is Python, the whole Python and nothing but the
Python." :)
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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Re: Blog "about python 3" Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-30 20:49 +0000
Re: Blog "about python 3" Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-30 21:29 +0000
Re: Blog "about python 3" Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-30 14:38 -0800
Re: Blog "about python 3" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-31 12:09 +1100
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Re: Blog "about python 3" Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-31 15:44 +1100
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