Amazon just turned twenty years old. Even though the company might be too young to celebrate with champagne, competitors have begun to levy charges that the online retailer is becoming a monopoly. While Amazon’s tentacles spread across many retail sectors, the store’s dominance in books represents a major monopolistic threat. Fortune takes a look at the fears that Amazon is growing too powerful, its control of printed material, how worried everyone should be, and what can be done about it.
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