When Nina Barrett (Medill ‘87) expanded Bookends & Beginnings earlier this year, she hoped the bookstore’s new window on Sherman Avenue would increase its visibility. By late March, the window was serving a higher purpose: displaying copies of a bright orange booklet, titled “How to Resist Amazon and Why.”
Barrett and Bookends are well acquainted with the zine’s message.
The independent Evanston bookstore is the initial plaintiff in a class action lawsuit filed on March 25, which alleges Amazon and the nation’s five leading trade book publishers have restrained competition, fixed prices and created a monopoly in the print trade bookselling industry.
Small business coalition takes on Amazon and Big Tech with new campaign
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Small business groups form coalition to lobby for strong antitrust laws
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Michael Howard quickly moves his cart through rows of shelving at the Amazon Prime Now warehouse in Seattle in 2019. A new coalition of small business organizations is urging policymakers to break up Amazon.com Inc. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times/TNS)
Amazon should be broken up, small merchant coalition says
A new coalition of small business organizations is urging policymakers to break up Amazon.com Inc.
Small Business Rising, which represents grocers, hardware stores, pharmacies and bookstores, on Tuesday laid out a set of goals aimed at reinvigorating U.S. antitrust enforcement, including a call to separate Amazon’s own retail business from the marketplace that hosts third-party sellers.