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Originally Posted by darryl
So Amazon was "a monopolistic company" and the illegal publishing cartel members are just suppliers? Even if you were right about Amazon being a monopoly and a harmful one it did not give the cartel a license to break the law, as the Courts found. More efficient and innovative businesses gut the business models of their competitors and even suppliers all the time. It is called competition. In fact, one could argue that Apple and the Publishers sought to gut the business model of Amazon by price fixing, thereby eliminating competition at the retail level. That was an illegal price fixing conspiracy, not competition.
Traditional publishers are going to be with us for quite a while in some form or another, but they have already had to change and are experimenting with further change, in response to various factors including Amazon's Indie market.
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Once again, if you read the appellate court dissent, where is where the interesting stuff is discussed in the US (as opposed to say, the Australian) court system, you will find that one US district court judge disagrees with your view of US anti-trust law.
All companies have to change and adapt. The publishers have been changing and adapting for a hundred years. Today's business model is not the business model of 1950, when magazines ruled the genre world, or in 1900 when newspapers and penny dreadfulls where the primary place most people read stories.
Indies are not unique to Amazon. They are on Apple as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they are on other platforms.