Galleycat says:

Referencing Barry Lynn‘s piece in Harper’s this week called “Killing the Competition: How the New Monopolies Are Destroying Open Markets,” the Author’s Guild explained: “Mr. Lynn makes the case that Amazon’s dominance isn’t just a story of an industry disrupted by online commerce and digital upheaval, it’s about the abandoning of New Deal era protections of retailers in 1975 (promoted by backers as a means to fight inflation, says Mr. Lynn) and what he portrays as a shift in 1981 in the Justice Department’s interpretation of antitrust law based on ‘Chicago School’ theories of efficiency and consumer welfare.”

Framing the rise of Amazon as a failure of government is a new one on me. The Guild goes on to claim that while Amazon is great for already established authors, it does a great disservice to new authors, announcing that "Literary diversity is at risk.” This is a very interesting charge, and one that could be easily proven (or disproven) as we move into the second decade of Amazon's dominance over the publishing industry.