As Congress has been investigating big tech companies for anti-competitive behavior and searching for ways to regulate these ever-growing giant entities, three publishing trade organizations have joined together to focus attention on the obvious monopoly that is easy to address. The chief executives of the AAP, the Authors Guild and the ABA sent a joint letter to House Antitrust Subcommittee chair Representative David Cicilline regarding the “concentrated power and influence” of Amazon. “The competitive framework of the publishing industry has been fundamentally altered in recent years—and remains at serious risk of further diminishment—because of the Amazon’s concomitant market dominance allows […]
