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Chokepoint Capitalism : How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Chokepoint Capitalism : How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBeacon Press

ISBN-100807012653

ISBN-139780807012659

eBay Product ID (ePID)22059014468

Product Key Features

Book TitleChokepoint Capitalism : How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicSocial Classes & Economic Disparity, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Free Enterprise

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics

AuthorCory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal338.477

Table Of ContentPART 1: CULTURE HAS BEEN CAPTURED CHAPTER 1 Big Business Captured Culture CHAPTER 2 How Amazon Took Over Books CHAPTER 3 How News Got Broken CHAPTER 4 Why Prince Changed His Name CHAPTER 5 Why Streaming Doesn't Pay CHAPTER 6 Why Spotify Wants You to Rely on Playlists CHAPTER 7 What the US Shares with Rwanda, Iran, and North Korea CHAPTER 8 How Live Nation Chickenized Live Music CHAPTER 9 Why Seven Thousand Hollywood Writers Fired Their Agents CHAPTER 10 Why Fortnite Sued Apple CHAPTER 11 YouTube: Baking Chokepoints In PART 2: BRAKING ANTICOMPETITIVE FLYWHEELS CHAPTER 12 Ideas Lying Around CHAPTER 13 Transparency Rights CHAPTER 14 Collective Action CHAPTER 15 Time Limits on Copyright Contracts CHAPTER 16 Radical Interoperability CHAPTER 17 Minimum Wages for Creative Work CHAPTER 18 Collective Ownership CHAPTER 19 Uniting Against Chokepoint Capitalism Acknowledgments Notes Index

SynopsisScholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue that we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to creative workers. By analyzing creative industries-from book publishing to news media to the music industry - Giblin and Doctorow reveal how powerful corporations lock in users and suppliers, make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and suppliers to accept unfairly low prices. They break down how to batter through those chokepoints-from transparency rights and collective action to ownership, radical interoperability, contract terminations, job guarantees, and minimum wages for creative work., A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)--or both. In Chokepoint Capitalism , scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. All workers are weakened by this, but the problem is especially well-illustrated by the plight of creative workers. From Amazon's use of digital rights management and bundling to radically change the economics of book publishing, to Google and Facebook's siphoning away of ad revenues from news media, and the Big Three record labels' use of inordinately long contracts to up their own margins at the cost of artists, chokepoints are everywhere . By analyzing book publishing and news, live music and music streaming, screenwriting, radio and more, Giblin and Doctorow deftly show how powerful corporations construct "anti-competitive flywheels" designed to lock in users and suppliers, make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and suppliers to accept unfairly low prices. In the book's second half, Giblin and Doctorow then explain how to batter through those chokepoints, with tools ranging from transparency rights to collective action and ownership, radical interoperability, contract terminations, job guarantees, and minimum wages for creative work. Chokepoint Capitalism is a call to workers of all sectors to unite to help smash these chokepoints and take back the power and profit that's being heisted away--before it's too late.