The underlying problems here are that the shortsightedness of book publishers in the nineties gave rise to Amazon, a deeply anticompetitive company, and that the shortsightedness of book publishers in the last ten years has... given further rise to Amazon, still a deeply anticompetitive company, by letting them set the retail sales terms for ebooks so much in their own favor that any
move away from their comically self - serving model is
viewed as a
brilliant new future.