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Amazon is now punishing Time Warner, too
- eroo 12y agoInteresting Amazon has started more aggressive pricing tactics with digital/published media providers. They must be pretty confident that they have the distribution share to squeeze them. Since their acting in a way beneficial to the end customer (i.e., by reducing prices), they're in a good position to avoid antitrust allegations.
- DanBC 12y agoMS were shipping a free browser which got them into anti-trust trouble, so it's not just about being cheaper.
- sp332 12y agoAmazon is big, but I don't think they're big enough to take on Time Warner in a fight.
- eroo 12y agoI'd be very curious to know how much of Time Warner's DVD/digital distribution is through Amazon. That's probably the most relevant metric for measuring Amazon's leverage. Admittedly this is a crude metric, but Amazon's market cap [1] is about 3x that of Time Warner [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&ei=wWeYU_CtKsOG6AHJ4IHYCg https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AAMZN&ei=wWeYU_CtKs... [2] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWX&ei=sWeYU_CkLcea6AGPz4DgCQ https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWX&ei=sWeYU_CkLcea6...
- sp332 12y agoThe leverage Amazon has is how hard it would be to replace Amazon.