Panorama – Amazon: The Truth Behind the Click

How well does online retailer Amazon treat its workers?

Conditions in the company’s giant warehouses have been condemned by unions as among the worst in Britain.

It’s the online retailer that has transformed the way we shop, but how does Amazon treat the workers who retrieve our orders?

Working conditions in the company’s giant warehouses have been condemned by unions as among the worst in Britain. Panorama goes undercover to find out what happens after we fill our online shopping basket.

“Nightline” goes inside the massive retail business on the biggest online shopping day of the year.

In his first interview since being axed as the show’s presenter following his attack on producer Oisin Tymon, Jeremy Clarkson said he was busier than ever – despite being unemployed. But he told Chris Evans’s breakfast show on Radio 2 that getting axed from Top Gear, which he described as “my baby”, had left “a big hole” which was “my own silly fault”. Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are believed to be negotiating with a streaming service like Netflix or Amazon.

AMAZON.COM has halted pre-orders of some Disney movies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, in what appears to be another contract dispute after the online giant began a protracted spat with publisher Hachette Book Group this year.
Physical copies of titles such as “Maleficent” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” were unavailable for order on Amazon.com on Sunday. Digital copies of some of the movies in question were still available for pre-order.

Amazon.com did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report. A Disney spokesman had no comment.

Amazon has been waging a battle against Hachette, the fourth-largest U.S. book publisher, over the price the online retailer can charge for ebooks. Hachette is owned by France’s Lagardere.

(Also see: Hachette Defends Itself After Amazon Alleges Price Fixing)

A group called Authors United ran a two-page ad in the New York Times on Sunday, criticizing Amazon for halting pre-orders from some Hachette authors and slowing delivery of books by Hachette authors. The ad was signed by more than 900 writers, including Stephen King and Donna Tartt.

Amazon says pricing ebooks at $14.99 or $19.99 is too expensive. It argues that cheaper ebooks sell more copies and so ultimately generate more revenue and more royalties for authors.

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