There are big differences between the particulars of music in books, but they're both monosynistic. When you have a monopoly somewhere in the supply chain, it's able to exert excessive buyer power on its suppliers and excessive seller power on its customers. So here's an example from books. About a decade ago, Amazon was using its investors capital to sell ebooks below cost. But every one of those ebooks were locked permanently to Amazon's platform with DRM.
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.
Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices