[Abathar]

No argument here if they decided to break his monopoly up. Standard Oil, ATT-Bell, Microsoft, International Harvester, all of these made for a better country when the anti-trust laws were implemented.

(More households have Amazon prime than firearms in America now? Wow...)

[HiTech RedNeck]

I’d differ in part about AT&T. Whatever else it brought us as monopoly, quality was high among those things. I watched proud American telecom decay over decades into yet another made-in-China commodity whose agents can’t even help a guy pay his phone bill without bringing in a copy of it. For shame. Genericizing Amazon will do the same.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

I thought the author put it well. "We don’t break companies up because they’re evil or take jobs or don’t pay taxes. We do it because it’s time.”

Recently I was shopping for a cell phone provider and saw Metro by TMobile has the Amazon Prime deal as part of a package deal that is hugely discounted. Add to that USPS Sunday delivery of Amazon only.