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Originally Posted by pwalker8
That's why they are called the big 5 publishers. There is actually a number of reasons why the publishers all got gobbled up into a few big conglomerations. Some of it is economy of scale. Some of it is the current tax laws. Some of it is that the current business model in the entertainment industry seems to favor having 3 to 5 companies. The music industry and movie industry is actually pretty similar.
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The electronics companies are the same way. When I was in college my math teacher told us once that when he was younger he had a job putting labels on vaccum tubes for things like radios (back before they went all solid state) and he'd put a Sony label on one tube a RCA label on another etc. and all the tubes were the same type. Just the label made them different. Food in stores is the same way. You can take a generic and a brand name can of say corn and if you traced them back through the supply chain chances are the contents of both will have come from the same canning facility and perhaps even from the same field. The difference in prices on the cans is solely due to the brand name on one of the cans.