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I think the "elitist New York lit establishment" vs. "populist" Amazon rubric misses the point. By a long shot. It's dangerous to let one firm sitting on a key node to have that much power. It's pretty easy to imagine Amazon abusing its position in the same way that Hollywood, AT&T, IBM, M$ or NBC did. We've been down this road before. Why are we doing it again?
I also think Packer misses with the gatekeepers vs. tsunami of crap schematic. The Gatekeepers were fine with loads of crap piled ever deeper. Meanwhile, Joyce had to get a dinky little bookshop in Paris print Ulysses. Virginia Woolf self-published.
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