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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic The Companies That Are Killing Creativity
Amazon and Spotify offer a raw deal for artists.
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María Jesús Contreras Reading My Own Rip-Offs
A journey inside one of the shadiest corners of the publishing industry
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Amazon’s Dangerous New Acquisition
The company’s purchase of iRobot, the maker of the Roomba, likely has little to do with cleaning floors.
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Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / AP Is Organized Labor Making a Comeback?
America’s labor leaders need to make sure that the unionization strategy used at Amazon spreads to other workplaces.
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Rosalind O'Connor / NBC The Simple Brilliance of That Amazon Go SNL Sketch
The show delivered incisive commentary by hewing close to shoppers’ realities—and adding a small dose of horror.
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Dick Whittington Studio / Corbis / Getty ; … People Liked Malls
Amazon appears to have discovered that the fastest, freest shipping is picking stuff up in person.
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Getty; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Amazon Killed the Name Alexa
Parents are fleeing from a name that can be, at best, a nuisance and, at worst, associated with subservience.
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Ilona Szwarc The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds
Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?
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Getty; The Atlantic Cancel Amazon Prime
The subscription service is Amazon’s greatest—and most terrifying—invention.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic What on Earth Is Amazon Doing?
The company’s social-media aggression is shocking. It shouldn’t be.
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Illustration by Ryan Haskins; images from GraphicaArtis / … Amazon Has Transformed the Geography of Wealth and Power
Understanding America in the giant company’s shadow
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Monster Publishing Merger Is About Amazon
Penguin Random House purchasing Simon & Schuster is not the gravest danger to the publishing business. The deal is transpiring in a larger context—and that context is Amazon.
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Getty / The Atlantic Amazon Is a Private Government. Congress Needs to Step Up.
Reining in the tech giants will help restore American democracy.
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Hiroko Masuike / The New York Times / … Exclusive: Amazon Confirms First Known Coronavirus Case in an American Warehouse
Workers at the Queens, New York, facility say employees were expected to come in for their night shift after the case was identified. Amazon denies this.
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Paul Kuroda / Reveal Ruthless Quotas at Amazon Are Maiming Employees
This holiday season, Amazon will move millions of packages at dizzying speed. Internal injury reports suggest all that convenience is coming at the expense of worker safety.
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Rendering by Patrick White; Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg … Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan
What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us.
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Willie B. Thomas / Getty Algorithms Are People
The secret sauce of search engines gives tech companies an abundance of plausible deniability.
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nimon / Shutterstock / Katie Martin / The … The Two Most Mysterious Words in Modern Shopping
I investigated the origins of my face wash and stumbled into the peculiar world of private-label products.
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Brian Danaher The Amazon Publishing Juggernaut
What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision.
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Mark Lennihan / AP What Amazon Thinks You’re Worth
Shoppers were offered a $10 credit in exchange for handing over their browser data. It’s an investment that pays dividends for Amazon.
