<blockquote>Amazon's strategy (as I noted in 2012) is to squat on the distribution channel, artificially subsidize the price of ebooks ("dumping" 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>  buying power to grab the publishers' share of the profits.</blockquote>
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? - Charlie's Diary</a>.
<blockquote><b>TL:DR;</b> Amazon'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's anti-author, and in the long term it will deprive you of the books you want to read.</blockquote>