"This book's critical analyses of Amazon.com trace the political economy of the platform, the practices of resistance that laborers and activists have employed against it, the broader cultural impacts it has had on everyday life, and its broader environmental impacts on the world."

Reverse pricing is a market mechanism under which a consumer's bid for a product leads to a sale if the bid exceeds a hidden acceptance threshold the seller has set in advance. The seller faces two key decisions in designing such a mechanism: First, he must decide where in the process to collect...

B2C e-commerce has grown considerably since the start of the century and the COVID-19 crisis will likely intensify this trend. In Europe, it is subject to a complex framework of EU regulation, which includes consumer contract law, in particular the rules on information obligations, passing of...