Andrew: I don’t agree with the premise of the article that Amazon is a monopoly and must be stopped – but the article contains interesting market and business insights and is a worthwhile read.

Amazon Must Be Stopped

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119769/amazons-monopoly-must-be-broken-radical-plan-tech-giant

It’s too big. It’s cannibalizing the economy. It’s time for a radical plan.

Before we speak ill of Amazon, let us kneel down before it. Twenty years ago, the company began with the stated goal of creating a bookstore as comprehensive as the great Library of Alexandria, and then quickly managed to make even that grandiloquent ambition look puny. Amazon could soon conjure the full text of almost any volume onto a phone in less time than a yawn. Its warehouses are filled with an unabridged catalogue of items that comes damn close to serving every human need, both basic and esoteric—a mere click away, speedily delivered, and as cheap as capitalism permits.