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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

Amazon.com Amazon.com Inc. picked New York City and Northern Virginia for its two new headquarters, taking advantage of some of the most-extensive incentives U.S. cities and states have ever offered, totaling $5.5 billion–more than the $5 billion the online retailer has promised to invest. Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2018  © 2018 Kwiple.com
Amazon.com It may be tempting to see the Amazon surveillance as purely a warehouse problem, and surveillance-driven variable pay as a gig problem, but employers face no legal limit to incorporating new types of variable pay into formal employment — and abuses faced by independent contractors are merging with those faced by formal employees. … Corporations may soon jettison the fixed-wage model that has been a feature of blue-collar employment for decades. Zephyr Teachout, New York Review of Books, Augsut 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Amazon.com Perhaps stealing a page from Amazon, which often promotes policies that would benefit it by talking about what customers want, the groups said their concerns were more about freedom of expression and a healthy culture than about themselves. New York Times, July 14, 2015, on complaints filed with the Dept. of Justice by the American Booksellers Association, the Association of Authors' Representatives, the Authors Guild and Authors United about how Amazon has damaged authors, readers, the publishing industry, and the free flow of information in the country © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Amazon.com Third-party sellers are a key part of Amazon's business. A recent report by the Institute for Local  Self-Reliance, a think tank critical of Amazon, showed that the fees they pay are Amazon's fastest-growing major source of revenue:  The company pocketed $121 billion in fees from sellers in 2021, up from $60 billion in 2019, Given its market dominance, those fees are a revenue stream that Amazon could most likely turn up. The report also noted that the average seller now gives Amazon a 34 percent cut of every transaction, up from 19 percent in 2014. Moira Weigel, New York Times, April 21, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com