"But we're still not sure what smaller ones are behind it".
The group has around 100,000 staff and 30 million customers – imagine what smaller, more fleet-footed businesses could be capable of?
That settlement has angered authors who see it as unfairly favoring Amazon, the deep-pocketed retailing giant, which can lower prices on books beyond what smaller booksellers can afford.
As someone who works on the retail side of the music business, I know that this is not what smaller or independent music stores need; it's one more reason for their customers to shop at the behemoths.
Linda S. Lodenkamper, a former chairwoman of a committee devoted to small business law at the Colorado Bar Association, agreed that many lawyers failed to recognize what smaller companies want.
He cited three global Israeli companies as examples of what smaller companies were aspiring to: Teva Pharmaceuticals; Check Point Software Technologies, a provider of Internet security options; and Amdocs, which offers software and services to improve customer experience.
