> Amazon made provide a very good service now but once all competition is gone what incentive is there to provide the same level of service? If a single busine

> Amazon made provide a very good service now but once all competition is gone what incentive is there to provide the same level of service? If a single business comes to dominate an entire industry, that's generally handled by anti-trust regulatory action. I mean, I agree that a single monopoly that no longer cares for consumer preferences would seem like a bad thing; we wouldn't want any one company, e.g. Amazon.com, completely dominating the field to the exclusion of all others. Though I dunno if old-fashion book stores would necessarily be the alternative. Or if the book-industry'll maintain its importance, even under Amazon.com, as other forms of media seem to be developing. --- EDIT: Amusingly, there's a link to an anti-trust thing for Amazon.com on HackerNews's front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24274159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24274159