Independent Film Makers & Distribution

Over the last few days in Industry Analysis, we have been looking at optimal decision making for firms that are vertically related. We will come back to this topic after the Thanksgiving break when we talk about franchises. Given this important topic of how firms make decisions with respect to other firms especially when their is considerable market power along the supply chain, I thought that this was an interesting article in the New York Times on how independent film makers are attempting to solve the distribution issue.