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The Everything War

Dana Mattioli, 2024

Understand how Amazon's convenience, infrastructure, and business incentives built market power, reshaped competitors' choices, and challenged the way regulators measure harm.

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13 parts, about 31 minutes to read.

Why read it

  • Asks whether low prices can coexist with harm to competition, following the fight over Amazon all the way to court
  • Shows how one platform can host sellers and compete with them, using their data, search rankings and fees
  • Built on interviews with hundreds of insiders, sellers and officials, checked against internal records

Who it is for

  • Independent sellers who depend on Amazon's marketplace
  • Founders taking meetings or money from big platforms
  • Readers following antitrust debates over big tech

What the summary covers

  1. The promise and the paradox2 min
  2. Building the place where people shop3 min
  3. The incentives inside the company1 min
  4. Infrastructure and the next market2 min
  5. Devices, data, and investment3 min
  6. Advantages and the public story3 min
  7. What counts as harm?2 min
  8. Retail losses and marketplace gains3 min
  9. Fear, growth, and responsibility2 min
  10. Washington demands answers2 min
  11. Essential services and wider leverage2 min
  12. Testimony and a stalled reform3 min
  13. The case that reached court3 min

Recommended by

  • Christopher LeonardAuthor of Kochland and The Lords of Easy Money
    A riveting and explosive work of investigative reporting that will stand as a classic.
  • Bryan BurroughCoauthor of Barbarians at the Gate
    This one could be a classic.
  • Zeke FauxAuthor of Number Go Up
    Dana Mattioli’s The Everything War is a masterful expose of a corporate leviathan’s relentless drive for power.

About the author

  • Dana MattioliWall Street Journal reporter covering Amazon
    • Reporter for The Wall Street Journal since 2006
    • Part of the WSJ team that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, for coverage of Elon Musk
    • Has written investigative pieces about Amazon since 2019; Pulitzer finalist in Investigative Journalism for that work
    • Amazon coverage won the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting

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