Thread: Why did the Big Publishing Houses get so big?
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Old 11-10-2012, 03:44 PM   #13
Andrew H.
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As Amazon has been allowed to grow unchecked publishers need sufficient size to counterbalance Amazon. Random House Penguin will have such a market share that even Amazon cannot credibly threaten to delist their books.
I think the formulation "has been allowed to grow unchecked" is strange in this context, as it seems to suggest that someone should have stopped Amazon.
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