[Ipg-smz] NYT: Amazon not doing enough (or even much) to squash counterfeit/fake books

[Dana Blankenhorn]

One of the big stories of this year is the pushback against what I call the
"Cloud Czars," usually called Big Tech by its adherents.

Regulation could be coming, but its impact would only be to maintain the
Czars' control of the market.
Break-ups aren't coming, and they're stupid. Had we waited for AT&T we
never would have had the cloud. And if we break up our Czars, I guarantee
China won't break up theirs, and then they'll have the market.
The accomodation between the Czars and government will be a story worth
following, but don't look for it in public statements. Look for it in quiet
rooms, courtrooms and restaurants where lobbyists ply their trade. Look for
it in hotel lobbies wherever execs from the Cloud Czars might meet. Look to
see who wins the "Google Primary" and whether that matters.

Some personal experience.

I was a reporter for the Houston Business Journal in 1979, when oil was in
a similar position to where tech is now. They wanted John Connally. They
finally accepted George Bush when Connally blew up. They didn't get him.
They had to ally with the defense and media industries to get Reagan, but
it was Bush whose advisors made the big policies afterward, people like Jim
Baker.

History doesn't repeat, but it sometimes rhymes.

Dana Blankenhorn
http://www.danablankenhorn.com
http://investorplace.com/author/danablankenhorn/
http://seekingalpha.com/author/dana-blankenhorn/articles



On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:13 PM Tara Calishain <researchbuzz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> " for digital delivery"
>
> -- should be "for material delivery."
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:12 PM Tara Calishain <researchbuzz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I sold books on Amazon for over 12 years FBM and over four years FBA.
>> That article doesn't even scratch the surface. There's no mention of PDF
>> copies delivered by email, or textbook pirates selling flash drives with
>> books on them to satisfy Amazon's requirements for digital delivery. Or
>> lowballing prices to confuse repricing algorithms and then jerking your
>> inventory, or putting up a fake listing with a lowball to get other
>> merchants' offerings repriced, then buying the mispriced inventory.
>>
>> Between all the schemes and the scams and Amazon's ever-increasing fees,
>> I'm not sure you can do book FBA on Amazon while playing it straight, and
>> I'm glad I'm out of it.
>>
>> Tara
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:27 AM Daniel Dern <dern at pair.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html
>>>
>>> (includes a quote from Kevin Savetz)
>>>
>>> Sigh.
>>>
>>> (And I see that the never-finished, never-issued 2nd edition of my own
>>> Internet book is available, used, for a modest $730...)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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