Join us on Wednesday, December 4 at 6:00 PM at the National Press Club as we launch legal director Sandeep Vaheesan’s new book.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan appeared on a lunch talk hosted by LPE Project to discuss his forthcoming book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan and policy counsel Tara Pincock co-published a powerful piece emphasizing that even the biggest publishers are no match for Amazon’s death grip on the book market.
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Open Markets’ years of actions and scholarship on Amazon’s monopoly power.
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Editorial director Anita Jain offers an insightful read on the stances made by Sohrab Ahmari, condemning unfettered corporate power and embracing the New Deal in his new book.
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Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and the American Booksellers Association have sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) urging these agencies to focus on how Amazon abuses its monopoly power over the market for books and ideas, as regulators appear on the verge of bringing a major suit against Amazon.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement concerning KKR’s bid to purchase book publisher Simon & Schuster.
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Chief economist Brian Callaci reviews Eric A. Posner’s book, How Antitrust Failed Workers, asserting that while he expertly lays out how antitrust can do better by workers, his view is too narrow.
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Open Markets celebrates the Department of Justice’s vote to file a civil antitrust lawsuit to block the proposed merger between Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann, and Simon & Schuster.
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Professor Nikki Usher and Matt Thompson of The New York Times discuss Usher’s recent book, “News for the Rich, White, and Blue,” and ideas for recreating American news media in a more equitable, inclusive, and justice-centered way.
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Illinois professor Nikki Usher imagines an approach to local journalism—one built on authentic, viewpoint-driven reporting upheld by readers invested in the community. Read reviews and reactions.
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In a piece in Washington Monthly, Phil Longman of Open Markets Institute highlights how monopoly power in health care compromises public health and threatens democracy in reviewing Brian Alexander’s new book, “The Hospital”.
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Sally Hubbard of Open Markets Institute interviews with Andy Fitch of Los Angeles Review of Books about her book, “Monopolies Suck.”
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The Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and six other writers associations representing thousands of book authors call on the Justice Department to move immediately to block the private conglomerate, Bertelsmann, from buying the book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
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Open Markets Institute urges DOJ to challenge ViacomCBS’s plans to sell the Simon & Schuster book publisher to Penguin Random House, and calls on the DOJ to immediately take steps to break Amazon’s power over the sale and distribution of books in America.
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Barry C. Lynn, executive director of Open Markets Institute, joins Zephyr Teachout in conversation about his latest book, “Liberty from All Masters” via Harvard Book Store.
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Sally Hubbard, the director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, joins Sarah Frier, technology reporter at Bloomberg, to discuss Hubbard’s new book, “Monopolies Suck” via Politics and Prose bookstore.
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In Monopolies Suck, Sally Hubbard shows us the seven ways big corporations rule our lives—and what must be done to stop them.
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