Amazon is trying very hard to be to ebooks what Google is to search today. This acquisition improves their chances of building a monopoly, but the ebook market

Amazon is trying very hard to be to ebooks what Google is to search today. This acquisition improves their chances of building a monopoly, but the ebook market (reader hardware & software, ebook formats, DRM, publishing, retailing etc.) is still very immature and fluid. So it's too early to declare winners, though Amazon is clearly leading. But all the activity makes the ebook space very exciting to witness and be part of right now.