This is not a bad thing
in some respects — rich communities have
legitimate need for
attention from the state, too — but the aid we can get this
way is out of proportion to the needs.
Unless you've been sleeping
in a cave (not that there's anything wrong with that), you're aware that much of book marketing 2.0 involves spreading
legitimate backlinks to your Web site to get the
attention of Google, which has been the best
way to reach the other 50 percent of your potential readers because that's the search engine to which they were all going to search for information about your topic.
Although experience internationally shows that cartels may exist
in almost any industry, there are certain industry structures and commercial activities and / or factors that may increase the risk of cartel formation, including: - customers that make regular, repetitive purchases by
way of competitive tender; - competitors that know each other well through social contact, trade associations, shifting employment or other
legitimate activities; - companies with immature corporate governance systems which fail to pay sufficient
attention to compliance issues; - price or margin increases
in a depressed market; - unexplained reluctance to compete on price and / or
in particular areas and / or
in respect of particular products; - unexplained reluctance to increase output; - unexplained pricing or market share stability
in a previously volatile market; and - regular unexplained parallel price increases.