Amazon has quietly captured a growing share of government purchasing. This major report explains how, and what to 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...
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.
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).
Local and federal policymakers have systematically structured tax policy in a way that deepens the concentration of corporate power, Stacy Mitchell and Susan Holmberg argue.
When we surveyed over 900 U.S. small, independent businesses, 94 reported being third-party sellers on Amazon’s Marketplace. This is a snapshot of their responses.
Amazon is exploiting its position as a gatekeeper to impose growing fees on the small businesses that rely on it to reach the online market.
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.
This ILSR report finds that Amazon is exploiting its gatekeeper power to impose huge fees on the third-party sellers that rely on its marketplace.
ILSR's Independent Business Survey offers insight and guidance to elected officials looking to build a more equitable, entrepreneurial, competitive, and dynamic economy.
In this report, we outline serious concerns with Amazon's move into procurement spending. The move could leave local governments at risk of being ripped off.
A survey finds that 90% of independent retailers report that Amazon is negatively affecting their businesses, though their strengths are helping them weather the storm.
Amazon is destroying competition and market diversity, leaving us with fewer choices, less innovation, and diminished opportunities.
Amazon is at the center of increasing inequality and diminishing opportunity, and that it's concentrating power in ways that endanger competition, community, and democracy.