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Originally Posted by binaryhermit
At what point do antitrust regulators start to object to consolidation like this?
(I'd argue the rise in non-big5 publishers that ebooks help enable might actually be beneficial to this merger's chances)
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You had an excellent first question on this. It took a while, but it turns out that someone was paying attention:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...9cd_story.html
This was an interesting line in the article:
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The argument isn’t that publishers would then charge consumers more for books, rather that they’d pay authors less for the rights to their work. That’s an unusual line of attack for an antitrust case. But it’s a valid one: It drives at the price people should get for their labor.
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