*‘If publishers become afraid, we’re in trouble’: publishing’s cancel culture debate boils over.*

40 years ago there were many substantial independent publishers with distribution to bookstores. If a few refused to publish a book, it could still reach the public. Nowadays there are four large publishing empires (or is it now just three?). It is easy to keep a book from reaching bookstores.

The concentration of book publishing results from plutocratist policies which continue to allow mergers in nearly all industries.

We need to deconcentrate industry, to make the large companies split up into many competing pieces. My tax proposal is a way to do this without needing a lot of lawsuits.