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DESCRIPTION:Corporate concentration (and profits) have breached the stratosphere. An 
 ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where 
 sellers have excessive power over buyers), monopsonies (where buyers hold 
 the whip hand over sellers)-or both. Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow argue 
 in their new book that the result is Chokepoint Capitalism: rigged markets 
 where powerful corporations have managed to position themselves between 
 workers and customers in ways that allow them to extract far more than 
 their fair share of value.\n\nNowhere are chokepoints more endemic than 
 creative labor markets. Chokepoint Capitalism details breathtaking abuses 
 being carried out in almost every place creativity meets money: book 
 publishing; Hollywood screenwriting; game development; news; music 
 streaming, publishing, and ticketing, and more. Deconstructing the playbook 
 used by Big Tech and Big Content to create their chokepoints, Giblin and 
 Doctorow show the problem to be fundamentally one of power imbalance. But 
 they don't stop there. They have a whole bunch of detailed, rousing, 
 unabashedly hopeful proposals for change, showing how creators and 
 audiences can work together to widen these chokepoints out-and get artists 
 paid.\n\nFree\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/09/21/18852149.php
SUMMARY:Author: Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
LOCATION:San Francisco Main Library\n100 Larkin St\nSan Francisco, CA 94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/09/21/18852149.php
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