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That's a tremendous amount of power for one organization to have. Imagine that the majority of online purchases eventually goes in this direction and then Amazon decided that it's going to charge the sites it represents 5% for each transaction. The sites cannot refuse because Amazon has become indispensable. At what point will Amazon be so big that they violate anti-trust laws? Obviously this is presumptuous, but not unlikely.