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Originally Posted by CommonReader
The "it's just business" argument is as feeble as it gets. Running a protection racket is also "just business". Pushing dope is "just business". Having kids produce garments for 50 Cents/day is "just business". Publishers forming a cartel was also "just business".
Yet some business is not acceptable or illegal.
Call me old fashioned but I do expect a major bookseller to carry the books of major publishing houses. If I had to choose between Amazon and the publishing houses I'll choose the publishers any day of the week. Amazon is just a delivery platform that hasn't contributed any great book to literature. Yet with their grip on the market they can do a lot of damage.
They are just the typical ugly face of many new companies: hiding out in some tax shelter, mainly creating crappy, poorly paid jobs. If at some point some regulator or tax authority manages to grab them and to shake them down until the pips squeak I won't shed a tear. (And no, I have no interests in the publishing industry)
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Did you ever miss the point! ALL major corporations want to be the ONLY game in town....this INCLUDE the publishers! They will do whatever they have to, to screw over the consumers and drive other businesses out of the market so that they are top dog. NONE of them are operating out of the goodness of their heart because business has no heart it is all about higher stock prices, profits and power!
The sooner everyone understands that the better off they will be.