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US booksellers and authors urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Amazon’s alleged monopolistic grip over the industry.

On Wednesday, the Open Markets Institute, an antitrust think tank, along with the Authors Guild and the American Booksellers Association, sent a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission, calling on the government to curb Amazon’s “monopoly in its role as a seller of books to the public.”

Change comes as booksellers urge FTC to launch another Amazon antitrust inquiry.

The online retailer’s size and sway affects the free exchange of ideas, the groups argue. The Biden administration has stepped up enforcement of antitrust policies.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is already facing a potential lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission, and now, a group of authors, booksellers, and an antitrust think tank is calling on the agency to investigate the e-commerce giant's stranglehold on the bookselling market, as previously reported by The New York Times. In the letter, the Authors Guild, American Booksellers Association, and Open Markets Institute urge the FTC to look into Amazon's "monopoly in its...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming part of the narrative for a growing number of novelists and short story writers, and as many as 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter this summer urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.

For a vast number of book writers, artificial intelligence is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer, urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation. At the same time, AI is a…

Copyright infringement is at the center of a growing number of lawsuits from creatives, major book publishers, and music labels fighting to protect their content from the clutches of technology.

The proposed consent judgment in publishers' Internet Archive lawsuit is made permanent but leaves some concerned about a limitation.

More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.