
The Tipping Point Was a Tipping Point
Book Riot - The Podcast
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Penguin Random House and Amazon Merge
i would like to see the models of if they merge, does it give the publishing industry greater leverage or ballast against the threat of amazon? Or does it create contraction and so much less competition that we end up with just p r h, simon and schuster, harper, with everybody all under one umbrella? Let me see how this goes. I think what really needs to happen is someone needs to go back to square one and acknowledge that trying to shore up power against amazon is a really big of this. But penguin and shrief, though, can't show up in court and say, the reason you should let us do this is so we want to be
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