Hacker News with Generative AI: Monopolies

Why my new audiobook is everywhere except on Audible (pragmaticengineer.com)
Currently, Audible’s position is hurting audiobook authors. My audiobook isn’t on Audible due to a mix of their monopolistic pricing practices, and the company’s own complacency in how long they take to approve new titles.

Audiobooks, Business, Monopolies, Competition

14 points by ingve 38 days ago | 2 comments

Audible's Monopolistic Practices (pragmaticengineer.com)
A year after The Software Engineer’s Guidebook was published, the audiobook version is here! The good news is it’s available on ALMOST all major audiobook platforms:

Audiobooks, Business, Monopolies

27 points by nico401 38 days ago | 3 comments

Senators Call for Crackdown on VeriSign Monopoly and Predatory Pricing of .com (wired.com)
US senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and congressman Jerry Nadler of New York have called on government bodies to investigate what they allege is the “predatory pricing” of .com web addresses, the internet’s prime real estate.

Monopolies, Pricing, Internet, Government Regulation, Domain Names

12 points by impish9208 56 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft May Have Created an Illegal Monopoly (propublica.org)
In the summer of 2021, President Joe Biden summoned the CEOs of the nation’s biggest tech companies to the White House.

Microsoft, Monopolies, Antitrust, Tech Industry, Regulation

24 points by tysone 64 days ago | 6 comments

Monopolies Are Why We Are Restarting Three Mile Island (thebignewsletter.com)
The most significant nuclear disaster in U.S. history took place in 1979, when Unit Two at the Three Mile Island nuclear power near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania suffered a partial meltdown.

Nuclear Power, Energy, History, Monopolies

8 points by doener 80 days ago | 4 comments

An Indiana hospital chain took over a region and jacked up prices (theguardian.com)
In the nation’s most affordable metro area, getting hurt or sick is expensive

Healthcare, Economics, Indiana, Monopolies, Healthcare Costs

17 points by mindracer 92 days ago | 0 comments

Epic Systems, a lethal health record monopolist (pluralistic.net)
Epic Systems makes the dominant electronic health record (EHR) system in America; if you're a doctor, chances are you are required to use it, and for every hour a doctor spends with a patient, they have to spend two hours doing clinically useless bureaucratic data-entry on an Epic EHR.

Healthcare, Technology, Monopolies, Business

10 points by Tomte 108 days ago | 0 comments

Google is a very strange monopolist (wsj.com)

Google, Monopolies, Business

34 points by Bostonian 159 days ago | 24 comments

Google's real monopoly is on the user data (propellernet.co.uk)

Google, Data Privacy, Monopolies

49 points by illdave 164 days ago | 36 comments

Monetization and Monopolies: How the Internet You Loved Died (radicalcontributions.substack.com)

Monetization, Monopolies, Internet, Technology, Business

53 points by jfil 172 days ago | 49 comments

Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers, small businesses (prospect.org)

Monopolies, Economics, Grocery Industry, Business, Consumer Protection

103 points by cainxinth 215 days ago | 99 comments

Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us (thebignewsletter.com)

Economics, Monopolies, Business, Inequality

455 points by passwordoops 223 days ago | 436 comments