{"id":2410,"date":"2012-01-19T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2410"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:57","slug":"harpers-includes-amazon-in-its-new-network-of-monopolies-major-publishing-ceo-calls-amazons-ceo-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/19\/harpers-includes-amazon-in-its-new-network-of-monopolies-major-publishing-ceo-calls-amazons-ceo-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"HARPER\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S INCLUDES AMAZON IN ITS NEW NETWORK OF MONOPOLIES; MAJOR PUBLISHING CEO CALLS AMAZON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S CEO DANGEROUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/47320\/harpers-inlcudes-amazon-in-its-new-network-of-monopolies-major-publishing-ceo-calls-amazons-ceo-dangerous\/\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Steven_Salerno__Harper_s_Cover2-203x300.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An essay in the February issue of<strong><em> Harper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Magazine<\/em><\/strong>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Killing the Competition: How the new\u00c2\u00a0monopolies are destroying open markets,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by <strong>Barry C. Lynn,<\/strong> includes <strong>Amazon<\/strong> in a growing list of American corporations that are pushing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153monopolization of our private markets.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Included are <strong>Apple, Google, Intel, <\/strong>and<strong> Pixar <\/strong>(which together colluded to prevent employees from getting jobs at other firms), the Brazilian food giant <strong>JPS <\/strong>(which sets chicken prices throughout the South), the advertising giant <strong>WPP<\/strong> (one of four large advertising holding companies), and <strong>Anheuser-Busch InBev<\/strong> and <strong>MillerCoors <\/strong>(which together control 90 percent of domestic beer distribution).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynn writes that many in the book business fear Amazon in the same way as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the chicken farmers of the Sweedlin Valley\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fear JPS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/47320\/harpers-inlcudes-amazon-in-its-new-network-of-monopolies-major-publishing-ceo-calls-amazons-ceo-dangerous\/\">Harper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s includes Amazon in its \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new network\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of monopolies; major publishing CEO calls Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s CEO \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dangerous&#8221; (via <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/47320\/harpers-inlcudes-amazon-in-its-new-network-of-monopolies-major-publishing-ceo-calls-amazons-ceo-dangerous\/\">Melville House Books)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay in the February issue of Harper\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Magazine, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Killing the Competition: How the new\u00c2\u00a0monopolies are destroying open markets,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Barry C. Lynn, includes Amazon in a growing list of American corporations that are pushing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153monopolization of our private markets.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Included are Apple, Google, Intel, and Pixar (which together colluded to prevent employees from getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/19\/harpers-includes-amazon-in-its-new-network-of-monopolies-major-publishing-ceo-calls-amazons-ceo-dangerous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HARPER\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S INCLUDES AMAZON IN ITS NEW NETWORK OF MONOPOLIES; MAJOR PUBLISHING CEO CALLS AMAZON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S CEO DANGEROUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7948,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions\/7948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}