Not exact matches
They have «
artificially» been boosting their numbers by doing major
share buybacks in recent years which has
kept investors away.
It is also remarkable that while the
share of the traditional publishing houses (including the Big 5) falls (probably partly due to the publishers
artificially keeping the prices high), the indie market grows: individual authors sell more ebooks daily on Amazon than the publishers with ISBN put together.
Analysis in the new WEO - 2017 showed that for the first time the largest
share of global subsidies that benefit fossil fuel consumption went to
keep electricity prices
artificially low (41 % of the global total), ahead of oil (40 %) and natural gas.