After Pledging to Keep Prices Low, Amazon Hiked Them on Hundreds of Essentials

 

Weddings in Venice are notoriously expensive

   WSJ, here.

Spinning Amazon’s Flywheel: How Amazon's business model harms competition -- A view from Europe

 Geradin Partners, here. 

Remarks by Executive Vice-President Vestager on the decision to make binding commitments offered by Amazon

 Here. 

The Economics of Amazon

 F. Etro, here. 

The European Commission buys into Amazon’s flawed commitments

 Balanced Economy, here. 

Commission sends Statement of Objections to Amazon for the use of non-public independent seller data and opens second investigation into its e-commerce business practices

 EC, here. 

Amazon Is a Private Government. Congress Needs to Step Up.

The Atlantic, here. 

Amazon Pushes Into Making Video Games, Not Just Streaming Their Play

NYTimes, here. 

Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos

Two-hour film, here.
Q&A: ‘Amazon Empire’ Director on the World’s Richest Man and His Mega-Company, here. 

Le tribunal de commerce de Paris condamne Amazon à une amende de 4 M€ et lui impose de revoir ses conditions générales d’utilisation

Jugement ici. 

Amazon forced to pull products in India as new rules bite

BBC, here.

(Not quite away yet)

WHY IT'S HARD TO ESCAPE AMAZON'S LONG REACH

Wired, here. 

Amazon Targets Unprofitable Items, With a Sharper Focus on the Bottom Line

WSJ, here. 

An Amazon revolt could be brewing as the tech giant exerts more control over brands

Recode, here,.

Plateformes de commerce en ligne et abus de position dominante Réflexions sur les possibilités d’abus d’exploitation et de dépendance économique

F. Marty, ici. 

Amazon Is Invading Your Home With Micro-Convenience

The Atlantic, here. 

Scott Galloway’s provocative predictions on Amazon, Walmart and the future of retail

Recode, here. 

Amazon Investigates Report That Employees Leaked Data for Bribes

Bloomberg, here. 

Amazon—An Infrastructure Service and Its Challenge to Current Antitrust Law

L. Khan, here (pp. 99 ff.), here. 

Amazon’s Clever Machines Are Moving From the Warehouse to Headquarters

Bloomberg, here.