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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraphs
Contents
Introduction: A Case Bigger Than It Seemed
Part I. Policy as Prologue
1. The Great Generalization
2. In the First Ships: Competition as a Concept and Its Special Role in American History
3. And Yet, Uncertainty: The Long Shadows of the American Methodenstreit
4. Uncertainty of Another Kind: Coping with Capitalism through Association and Self-Help
5. Tensions of the Latter Day and Some Unexpected Skepticism
6. Competition as a Living Policy, circa 2019
Part II. The Ebooks Case
7. The Old Business of Books
8. Bookselling and the Birth of Amazon
9. Publishers, Booksellers, and the Oldest Problem in the World
10. Price-Fixing in Books
11. Content and the Digital Transition in Historical Context
12. The Promise and Threat of Electronic Books
13. How Electronic Books Came to Be, and What It Would Mean for the Apple Case
14. Google Books
15. The Kindle
16. The eBooks Conspiracy
Part III. Competition and its Many Regrets
17. The Long Agony of Antitrust
18. So Are Books, After All, Special? Is Anything?
19. The Virtues of Vertical and Entry for Its Own Sake
20. Amazon
21. The Threat to Writers and the Threat to Cultural Values
22. The Creeping Profusion of Externalities
Conclusion: Real Ironies
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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