Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells
ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it
hurts independent bookstores,
small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.