Posted on 10/22/2014 12:12:59 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The Times columnist suggests a government crackdown for selling conservative books too quickly.
Big-government aficionado Paul Krugman is calling for “public action to curb the power” of an entity he can’t quite bring himself to call a monopoly, even as he nonetheless compares its “abuses” to those of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil company. The subject of his ire? “Amazon.com, the giant online retailer, has too much power, and it uses that power in ways that hurt America,” Krugman whines.
“Does Amazon really have robber-baron-type market power? When it comes to books, definitely,” Krugman insists. “Amazon overwhelmingly dominates online book sales, with a market share comparable to Standard Oil’s share of the refined oil market when it was broken up in 1911. Even if you look at total book sales, Amazon is by far the largest player.”
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Amazon is AWESOME !!!!
They do everything with astonishing efficiency.
I do lots of shopping with them and my family knows that I adore receiving the gift card. (It pays to advertise.)
The gift card actually come in a box with a ribbon.
Delightful !
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What would the free world do without Paul Krugman? I know I couldn’t bear to have an answer to that question.
What a whiner. I would love to see a debate between Krugman and Bezos. Krugman thinks he is the smartest man in the world, but I can tell you with no doubt,Bezos is easily his equal, and probably even smarter. Bezos is on the smartest guy Ihave ever known.
Krugman is:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
As a self-published author, I can only say I wish that were true. It's very difficult for a self-published author to promote his/her book. Having said that, I also have to say that Amazon has treated me very well with regard to my self-published book, even offering to bring it out for Kindle when I had been unable to do that for myself (handling the graphics was beyond me).
Having a big publishing house handling the promotion is a lot better than having to do it yourself.
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