According to a recent paper by Sara and Glenn Ellison, when this company purchased a competitor and reduced search costs in its market, average prices, price dispersion, and consumer surplus all increased. In order to build its app ecosystem in the context of two-sided markets, it charged consumers 99 cents for its smartphone in 2014. In 2012, this company spent $775 million to acquire Kiva Systems. At a location in Pennsylvania, this company tagged all of their employees with GPS trackers to monitor their manual efficiency. Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, wrote a letter to this company after it stopped hosting the website of Wikileaks. In 2009, this company yanked a US-copyright-violating version of the novel 1984 from its products without notice. For 10 points, name this online marketplace and titan of the book indus
According to a recent paper by Sara and Glenn Ellison, when this company purchased a competitor and reduced search costs in its market, average prices, price dispersion, and consumer surplus all increased. In order to build its app ecosystem in the context of two-sided markets, it charged consumers 99 cents for its smartphone in 2014. In 2012, this company spent $775 million to acquire Kiva Systems. At a location in Pennsylvania, this company tagged all of their employees with GPS trackers to monitor their manual efficiency. Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, wrote a letter to this company after it stopped hosting the website of Wikileaks. In 2009, this company yanked a US-copyright-violating version of the novel 1984 from its products without notice. For 10 points, name this online marketplace and titan of the book industry founded by Jeff Bezos.