> This strategy meant that it became progressively harder for shoppers to find things anywhere except Amazon, which meant that they only searched on Amazon, whi

> This strategy meant that it became progressively harder for shoppers to find things anywhere except Amazon, which meant that they only searched on Amazon, which meant that sellers had to sell on Amazon. Downloadable pre-21st century MP3s (or even CDs) are a fine example. My own recent search turned up none with a catalog within an order of magnitude of Amazon's size. Injury to insult, the ability to play a few-second sample before buying is long gone. A smallish competitor in Czechia will do this, but all text on the website (except content titles) is Czech-only.