Throwing the Book at Amazon’s Monopoly Hold on Publishing | The Nation

It's a common trope in movies: A mob enforcer walks into a shop, looks around, and then says to the owner, "Nice place you got here. It'd be a shame if something happened to it." Every viewer understands that a shakedown is in the works. The shop owner can either pay up immediately, or else his livelihood will burn to the ground.

But what do we call it when a large firm makes a similar, although not quite so blatant, threat to a smaller firm that is reliant on its business? What's the laissez-faire euphemism for an arrangement that coerces the smaller firm into acquiescing to the larger firm's unreasonable demands because if it refuses, it will lose substantial business and face financial ruin?