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So then the Big 6 pretty much holds almost all of the titels that are moving copies?
That is after all what makes their position unique, and why we discuss them, right?
If that is the case I must admit that it takes me a bit by surprise. The US has always struck me as the most competetively inclined country in the world, granted that is an observation from far away, but I thought US consumers were generally critical to oligarch structures in the market place. I can see the need for a local monopoly on water and sewage, but it always starts to go downhill when there are only a few agents in a market. I might be stretching it a bit here, but look at what happened to the US auto industry. There were only three makers, with GM dominating. Japan hade nine car industries, that kind of competition on the home market made them better attuned to the demands of the US consumer. I realise that Japanese publishing houses arent going to invade the US market, but with electronic distribution, there is nothing stopping a US author to tie up with a UK, AUS or NZ publisher.
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