Tomorrow, President Obama will travel to Chattanooga, TN, to give a speech promoting manufacturing and higher-paying jobs for Americans — and he'll be giving it at the Amazon warehouse, a move that has left some critics of the president and the internet sales giant a little angry. As noted by GigaOM , a number of those complaints are coming from book publishers — an industry particularly affected by Amazon's ability to cut prices on merchandise and sell it at volume. Dennis Johnson, co-founder of independent publisher Melville House wrote a scathing post on the company's blog, calling Amazon "an openly de facto — and I would ad de jure — monopoly." Regarding Obama's visit, Johnson writes:
The only thing that would have stopped...
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