
Standards, Protocols, and Transacting in Information
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Is There a Monopoly on Publishing?
Amazon's done it where Amazon is monopolized. They've monopolized, I would say monopolized on publishing. And then they've also standardized publishing. So now all of these authors that were enjoying this monopoly are coming in saying, oh, this is super easy and you have more competition. Think about it with browsers. We had to standardize on a, on, on HTML on, I guess, JavaScript, JavaScript. And then you have a browser that's like, well, we can jump on that. It's readily available. Yeah. Anyway, interesting thinking, but we still haven't brought it down to the, to the small business yet,. But how do you think about
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