But imagine my store... I have shelves and shelves and shelves full of pies, walls full, twenty flavors, willing to do new flavors at any moment to customer demand, willing to license small slices of any pie at any time. (deanwesleysmith.com)
Rider - owned companies currently compete for an extremely small slice of the pie: Twin - tips account for some 40,000 of the 600,000 pairs of skis sold annually in North America, and more than half of those 40,000 are produced by industry giants, who, though late to the party, have overwhelmed the market with their production and distribution infrastructure. (si.com)
I'm not annoyed or surprised — I predicted that once Amazon had its way with the big 5, once indies had served their purpose as a stick with which to threaten trad pubs, it would go back to business as usual, where the lion's share of sales went to trad pubs and Amazon imprints (a variation of trad pub), and indies had to generate far more content and work far harder for a much smaller slice of the pie. (russellblake.com)