For more than a decade, we’ve been producing groundbreaking research on Amazon’s monopoly power and calling for it to be broken up.
Despite being under legal scrutiny, Amazon’s monopoly and its abuse of sellers and shoppers are only getting worse. Its dominance is structural and self-reinforcing, and behavioral restrictions alone are unlikely to restore competition.
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Online price swings may look like fierce competition. In reality, Stacy Mitchell writes in Washington Monthly, they’re part of an invisible strategy Amazon uses to maintain its dominance of e-commerce and push prices upward across the market.
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ILSR’s new report reveals that Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is driving up costs, eroding competition, and harming local economies.
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Communities can assert their power against the big tech monopolies driving the harmful expansion of massive data centers.
ILSR's guide to hosting and supporting teacher wish lists without using Amazon.
ILSR's virtual event spotlights how pricing algorithms deployed by powerful corporations are inflating prices, undermining competition, and threatening independent businesses and communities.
You know why your local and state governments shouldn't be buying from Amazon. Here's what you can do about it.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed suit against Amazon for monopolizing e-commerce in violation of U.S. antitrust laws. This explainer looks at why the...
In a letter to the FTC, ILSR warns that control over cloud computing is dangerously concentrated thanks in large part to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
How Amazon uses its monopoly power to extract extreme and rapidly growing fees from businesses on their site that have little choice to reach customers.
Amazon claims that it has “a mutually beneficial relationship” with the small businesses that depend on its platform. This fact sheet tells the real story.