By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16hNearly all the hotel rooms are booked by a tiny minority of travelers - largely that same top decile that Amazon has so thoroughly captured and locked in - and hoteliers can't live without their business, and they're almost all Expedia and/or Priceline customers. 1694
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16hExpedia accounts for *80%* of all hotel bookings by dollar value. 1684
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16hExpedia's position, in other words, is basically Amazon's position, so Expedia is doing exactly what Amazon is doing: they charge huge fees to hotels, and then force the hotels to raise their prices everywhere through a "most favored nation" deal: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...storage.courtlistener.com 17412