When I was a baby writer, there were 25 houses in New York. Now there's five. 70% of all the recorded music was controlled by three labels. We've never had a situation like that. One company controls 90% of the audiobook market. There's writers who credibly accused Audible of hundreds of millions of dollars in wage theft.
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course, more layoffs. Then we’re joined by Friend of Pivot Cory Doctorow on his new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.”
Cory is on Twitter at @doctorow and you can find his book here.
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