Amazon has that much more power route to the publishers now because of the Apple case, right? Like the reason they're negotiating with, with Hashet right now is that's part of the judicial order that each of the companies had to renegotiate with Amazon. In six months, Amazon's going to negotiate with, with, I think, Mcmillan, I can't remember what was next, but like, and they are very, and they're Hashet is much more limited in what they can do Because of, of that decision. And so the net is by enforcing, I disagree with this decision, but I'm not going to get into the legal arguments.
This episode surprised us; through a discussion of who is at fault in the latest series of new vs old-world spats, we realized that not only has the Internet fundamentally changed winners-and-losers, but also the very nature of economic competition and the type of regulation that is required.
Topics & Links
- Mathew Ingram: Giants Behaving Badly – GigaOm
Google v MetaFilter
- Matt Haughey: On the Future of MetaFilter – Medium
Journalism v Facebook
- Mike Hudack: A Rant About the State of Media – Facebook
- Ben Thompson: Newspapers are Dead; Long Live Journalism – Stratechery
Amazon v Publishers
Antitrust, Network Effects, and the Age of Abundance
Do Tech Companies Have a Responsibility to Society?
On how the Internet has fundamentally changed the world, and how government regulation is hopelessly behind
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