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Originally Posted by Quexos
I just hope these mergers won't steer the industry towards more monopolies which would be bad for the customers.
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This is an industry in which producers already have a legal monopoly over almost every product they sell (the exception being classics).
Do I therefore think the degree of market consolidation in the publishing industry is unrelated to individual product prices? Well, actually, I'm not sure. But when you combine the fact that publishing would still be a rather non-consolidated industry after the merger, and the fact that the products are already monopolized, I can't see it really giving them power to raise prices.