{"id":2394,"date":"2012-04-17T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2012-04-17T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:42:35","slug":"amazon-ebooks-drm-and-monopsony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/amazon-ebooks-drm-and-monopsony\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, eBooks, DRM and Monopsony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/fiction\/faq.html\">Charlie Stross<\/a> (author) has an excellent blog entry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2012\/04\/understanding-amazons-strategy.html\">about Amazon&#8217;s ebook strategy<\/a>.  Great article:  I love it when I read something interesting, and learn something &#8211; such as Amazon as a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monopsony\">monopsony<\/a>&#8220;.  <\/p>\n<p>While I knew what a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monopoly\">monopoly <\/a>was (there is only one seller to many buyers), the term <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monopsony\">&#8220;monopsony&#8221; <\/a>(where one buyer has many sellers) was new to me. It also appears to be new to my spellchecker, which keeps trying to change it to &#8220;monopoly&#8221;.  Right.  Amazon has made itself both a monopoly and monopsony. Go read Charlie&#8217;s blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And he&#8217;s with me regarding DRM<\/strong> (which must die if publishers are to live; again, read his blog):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I won&#8217;t actually advocate violating license terms and conditions, but I&#8217;ll cop to doing so myself (insofar as if I buy a DRM&#8217;d ebook, I think I&#8217;d be mad not to strip the DRM and make an archival copy strictly for my own future use).<br \/>\n     -Charlie Stross, from <em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2012\/04\/understanding-amazons-strategy.html\">What Amazon&#8217;s ebook strategy means<\/a>&#8220;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What he said!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Stross (author) has an excellent blog entry about Amazon&#8217;s ebook strategy. Great article: I love it when I read something interesting, and learn something &#8211; such as Amazon as a &#8220;monopsony&#8220;. While I knew what a monopoly was (there is only one seller to many buyers), the term &#8220;monopsony&#8221; (where one buyer has many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}