They hate better productivity and the lower prices it brings. Steve Coll writes in a review of The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon: Jeff Bezos’s conceit is that Amazon is merely an instrument of an inevitable digital disruption in the book industry, that the company is clearing away the rust and cobwebs created by inefficient analog-era “gatekeepers”—i.e., editors, diverse small publishers, independent bookstores, and the writers this system has long supported…. Toward the end of his account, Stone asks the essential question: “Will antitrust authorities eventually come to scrutinize Amazon and its market power?”…there are reasons to … Continue reading Why the Left Hates Amazon