According to the post by Porter Anderson, the Association of American Publishers, the Authors Guild and the American Booksellers Association sent a letter to the House of Representatives' Antitrust Subcommittee complaining about Amazon's book selling. According to the letter the three groups believe the way Amazon sells books, ebooks and advertising is unfair to them. In the letter they ask the government to force Amazon to do four things to level the playing field for the three groups' members. Here's a kitty paraphrase in simple terms as best as I can figure out in my opinion of the four things they want: 1) Amazon to stop using the information they've gathered about customers previous purchases to recommend new purchases; 2) Amazon to stop "forcing" the groups' members to buy advertising and then giving the advertisers better placement in customer searches; 3) Amazon not to stop book suppliers from offering rival distributors lower prices and better deals; and 4) Amazon to stop using loss-leaders. There's a link included in the post to the groups' letter to the subcommittee, so you can read it yourself.
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Panzer says, "Hmm ... This little kitty is so confused by all this; but, that's okay because nobody asked for my opinion anyway."
Note: This is a long post. Bring a quart of tea, three muffins and a chocolate chip cookie (biscuit) for today's reading selection.
To read the post tootle over to Publishers, Authors and Booksellers vs Amazons
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