{"id":1818,"date":"2014-05-26T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2014-05-26T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T17:57:55","slug":"amazon-malignant-monopoly-or-just-plain-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1818","title":{"rendered":"Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Amazon&#8217;s strategy (as I noted in 2012) is to squat on the distribution channel, artificially subsidize the price of ebooks (&#8220;dumping&#8221; or predatory pricing) to get consumers hooked, rely on DRM on the walled garden of the Kindle store to lock consumers onto their platform, and then to use their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monopsony\">monopsony<\/a>\u00a0 buying power to grab the publishers&#8217; share of the profits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2014\/05\/amazon-malignant-monopoly-or-j.html\">Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil? &#8211; Charlie&#8217;s Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>TL:DR;<\/b> Amazon&#8217;s strategy against Hachette is that of a bullying combine the size of WalMart leaning on a much smaller supplier. And the smaller supplier in turn relies on <em>really<\/em> small suppliers like me. It&#8217;s anti-author, and in the long term it will deprive you of the books you want to read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s strategy (as I noted in 2012) is to squat on the distribution channel, artificially subsidize the price of ebooks (&#8220;dumping&#8221; or predatory pricing) to get consumers hooked, rely on DRM on the walled garden of the Kindle store to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1818\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-2","tag-monopsony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1819,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}