In fact, it helps a lot of smaller businesses
compete with big corporations.
Not exact matches
It's always been challenging for small businesses to
compete with big - box chains and giant
corporations.
At a stroke, it democratised publishing and allowed any writer, anywhere in the world, to
compete on equal terms
with the corporate media giants like the
Big Five: that's the Hachette Book Group (a subsidiary of Time Warner), HarperCollins (a subsidiary of NewsCorp), Macmillan Publishers (a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group), Penguin Random House (a subsidiary of Pearson and Bertelsmann), and Simon & Schuster (a subsidiary of CBS
Corporation).
In the 1990s, the
big cases were Basic Books Inc. v. Kinko's Graphic
Corporation (1991) and Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Service (1996) which put an end to royalty - free photocopying for class use of copyrighted materials, for, the courts rule, the course readers were being sold for a profit and were
competing against the original books (
with 5 - 30 % of the... [more]