True about the Walmart squeeze. But the difference is Walmart is not squeezing the merchandisers of say lawn furniture, while at the same time enticing independent makers of lawn furnature to sign up under their own Walmart merchandising for bigger profit.
It just seems between this and the battle with the libraries, and all the other things Amazon is doing, it is really trying to monopolize the market.. Maybe before Apple gets more into the playing field.. Maybe because the think they are now big enough to over take the market..
I say they might have been getting big enough, but the are moving too fast.. A slower pace may have gained them ground here & there, while publishers & vendors did not see the big picture. But, the moved to fast an started wars.
They might still be big enough to win the war, but had they gone slower, victory would probably been won without a war, because they would have gotten too big to even fight. Right now I still fear they may win, but the publishers have a small shot. Or possibly it will kill the publishers, but not without them putting enough of a monkey wrench into Amazons take-over as to de-rail it and the smaller publishers and independents will end up winning..
Don't know but battle lines are definately being drawn, and Amazon definately has some sort of take-over game plan in mind.
Well I hope the Independent publishers keep their Authors, as the make a stand..
