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claimed the contracts
create “an artificially
high price floor across
the online retail market-
place,” according to a
press release. Racine
stated that these agree-
ments ultimately harm
both consumers and
third-party sellers by re-
ducing competition, innovation and choice.
Amazon requires third-party vendors who want to do The Cook Memorial Public Library District has several
sell on Amazon to abide by its business agreement. Computer Classes via Zoom scheduled in June.
Until 2019, Amazon included a clause in that agree-
ment that prohibited sellers from offering their prod- Photoshop CC
ucts on a competitor’s online marketplace at a lower Wednesday, June 9=09 @ 6:30pm—8:00pm
price than what their products sold for on Amazon.
Amazon removed that rule in March 2019 as it faced In this demo course, we will review the basic of Photoshop
growing antitrust scrutiny. Creative Cloud including project, photo editing basic, lay-
The complaint alleges that even after Amazon re- ing and more.
moved the “no cheaper” pricing provision from its
agreements with third-party sellers, it added an PowerPoint I
identical policy it called its “fair pricing policy.” The Wednesday, June 16: 2021 @ 6:30pm—8:00pm
fair pricing policy enables Amazon to “impose sanc-
tions” on a seller that offers their product for a lower In this course, we will review the basic of creating a dy-
price on a competing online marketplace. namic presentation in PowerPoint. Learn ho to add slides,
edit images, and translation/animation to make slide
Do Sellers Really Set Their Own Prices?
come alive.
Yes, they do – but only as long as they follow Ama-
zon’s pricing rules. Amazon’s pricing agreements PowerPoint II
were also a topic of scrutiny in the House Judiciary Wednesday, June 23: 2021 @ 6:30pm—8:00pm
subcommittee. In their final report lawmakers
agreed that Amazon uses its dominant position in e- This course will look at more advanced option in Power-
commerce as leverage with third-party sellers to re- Point including the SlideMaster, presentation recording,
quire they adhere to pricing restrictions. live presentation, and slideshow.
These clauses are at least anti-competitive, espe- You must register for these courses and you can join from
cially when a company like Amazon has virtual mo- a PC, iPad, iPhone or Android device
nopoly powers.

David Kretchmar, Computer Technician

Sun City Summerlin OUR COMPUTER went down at work,

Computer Club so we had to do everything manually.
It took me 20 minutes to shuffle the
cards for solitaire.

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