Charlie Stross dislikes the Amazon monopsony: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/news_from_the_ebook_dimension.html http://www.antipope.org/ch

Charlie Stross dislikes the Amazon monopsony: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/news_from_the_ebook_dimension.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/news_fro... Excerpt: * They're using their monopsony position to fuck over their suppliers (i.e. the publishers) in a manner that threatens a catastrophic crash in author royalties in the medium term (up to 5 years). NB: as a reader, you may enjoy the short term price benefit, but you'll pay for it in the long term in reduction of choice. * Their actions may start a trans-Atlantic price war between publishers, to the detriment of authors (again, in the medium term).