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fjtorres · 01-23-2016, 08:19 AM

Kindle's competitors may not be literally stupid but they are unquestionably ineffective. And their continued ineffectiveness despite the clear nature of Kindle's competitive advantages speaks volumes about their priorities, just as the tradpub establishment's Big Lie propaganda campaign holding their lynching party "event" in Washington DC speaks to the real target of their whine-fest. It's not as if they haven't made it clear that what they want is for politicians to give them European-style protection from open competition.

Considering how affordable the typical Congressional Representative is, it is also clear from their choice of this public stunt campaign instead of quietly buying the votes like every other competent lobbying group that they no more understand American political culture than they understand American consumer culture. They are asking politicians to give them special benefits that run counter to the interests of vast swaths of the voting public (some 40-80M of them, most of them of voting age, literate, and very politically aware) and the only way a politician does that is if they see an offsetting benefit under the table. And in today's populist political environment few politicians are going to fall on their swords for a bunch of whiny authors and their foreign paymasters crying "monopoly".

Not without seeing a few suitcases packed full of unmarked small denomination bills.

Until somebody in Washington, anybody, dares to stand up and offers up a french-style anti-Amazon bill all the AU gang is doing is meaningless. Self-important posturing by a bunch of entitled whiners.

The whole event is, as somebody famous once said; "...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

01-23-2016, 08:19 AM	#57
fjtorres Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,732 Karma: 128354696 Join Date: May 2009 Location: 26 kly from Sgr A* Device: T100TA,PW2,PRS-T1,KT,FireHD 8.9,K2, PB360,BeBook One,Axim51v,TC1000	Kindle's competitors may not be literally stupid but they are unquestionably ineffective. And their continued ineffectiveness despite the clear nature of Kindle's competitive advantages speaks volumes about their priorities, just as the tradpub establishment's Big Lie propaganda campaign holding their lynching party "event" in Washington DC speaks to the real target of their whine-fest. It's not as if they haven't made it clear that what they want is for politicians to give them European-style protection from open competition. Considering how affordable the typical Congressional Representative is, it is also clear from their choice of this public stunt campaign instead of quietly buying the votes like every other competent lobbying group that they no more understand American political culture than they understand American consumer culture. They are asking politicians to give them special benefits that run counter to the interests of vast swaths of the voting public (some 40-80M of them, most of them of voting age, literate, and very politically aware) and the only way a politician does that is if they see an offsetting benefit under the table. And in today's populist political environment few politicians are going to fall on their swords for a bunch of whiny authors and their foreign paymasters crying "monopoly". Not without seeing a few suitcases packed full of unmarked small denomination bills. Until somebody in Washington, anybody, dares to stand up and offers up a french-style anti-Amazon bill all the AU gang is doing is meaningless. Self-important posturing by a bunch of entitled whiners. The whole event is, as somebody famous once said; "...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."