As media and communications industries enter the digital age, policy makers are confronted with unique new challenges to ensure competitive, consumer-friendly markets. EPI's book Cable Mergers and Monopolies provides a detailed study of the increasingly concentrated cable TV industry, which has dominated the video market for decades and is rapidly gaining dominance in the high-speed Internet market.

The book combines the analytic concept of platforms with traditional structure, conduct, and performance analyses from the field of industrial organization. It also identifies innovative policies that federal, state, and local authorities can implement to prevent abuse of consumers and promote competition in digital information markets.

Mark Cooper is the Director of Research at the Consumer Federation of America where he has responsibility for energy, telecommunications, and economic policy analysis. He holds a doctoral degree from Yale University and is a former Yale university and Fulbright Fellow. Dr. Cooper is the 2002-03 fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society and an associated fellow at the Columbia University Institute on Tele-Information. He has provided expert testimony in over 250 cases before state and federal agencies, courts, and legislators in almost four dozen jurisdictions in the United States and Canada. His published work includes numerous articles in trade and scholarly journals, including recent law review articles on digital society issues, and he is the author of two books, The Transformation of Egypt (1982) and Equity and Energy (1983).