Amazon’s Stranglehold on Online Retail

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Ten Reasons to Avoid Doing Business With Amazon

The publishing giant busts unions, dodges taxes, abuses its workers, puts your privacy at risk and more. Here are 10 good reasons to take your money elsewhere.

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The Nation’s Special Amazon issue has arrived—check out Steve Wasserman’s cover story on how the publishing behemoth is (still) changing everything.

Also Inside:

• Why Amazon now makes customers do the search chores it used to do for them
• How Germany has managed to keep Amazon at bay—and literary culture alive
• What we do and don’t know about our great grandparents’ sex lives.
• Blowing the whistle on tip-stealing bosses
• Obama lights up the war on pot
• How many innocent people have we sent to prison?
• & much more