There are two major flaws in Barnes & Noble's complaint. First, they ignore the existence of Kobo (now owned by Rakuten, the "Amazon of Japan" who also owns bu

There are two major flaws in Barnes & Noble's complaint. First, they ignore the existence of Kobo (now owned by Rakuten, the "Amazon of Japan" who also owns buy.com) and other significant competition for Amazon besides themselves and Apple. Second, at the time of Amazon's supposed monopoly, Amazon's only long-run competition was Sony. Nook had just launched and the other major players (Kobo, Google, Apple) were in the process of launching. With the exception of Apple their decision to launch was unrelated to the agency model.