Let’s go to brass nails. Amazon sucks. It has destroyed the brochure publishers at a loss, for at least a decade. The CEO just wasted $10 million, sending celebrities into space when people can’t afford health care, housing and food. They often abuse workers and suppliers and use dark strategies to avoid tax payments.
Their recent dark strategy is book sales starting on the 23rd and lasting until the 28th. Independent Bookstore Day is on the 26th. This is no accident, as this is the second year that Amazon has been selling books a week ago at the Independent Bookstore. So let’s stick with it and buy books in one of these places.
- bookshop.org
- One-stop bookstore donates its proceeds to more than 2,000 bookstores in the United States. You can choose a specific bookstore in your area to support and purchase directly, or if you don’t have a nearby bookstore, you can order directly from the website and donate the proceeds to all stores.
- Blue Cooperation
- Founded in 1999 and has been owned since 2021, Bluestockings is one of the few bookstores that are active and diverse for feminists, sex workers. They have a large number of graphic novels with themes ranging from pronouns to queer mermaids. In times of threatening these institutions, supporting cooperatives and workers-owned institutions is more important than ever.
- Silver sprocket
- Founded in 2012, Silver Sprocket is a San Francisco-based bookstore, publisher and gallery. They specialize in experimental radical comics, their subjects ranging from Catholic vampires to guides on methods for family abortion. After their recent layoffs, it is important to support local and progressive retailers like this.
- Your local library
- Seriously, if you don’t have the money and live in a city of any kind, you have a local library. In most cases, the library will have a website to access its catalogue of books. Put a book and pick it up while in the store. If they don’t have it, you can always ask them to buy it.
- Libby App
- Maybe your local branch is far away, there Ridiculous law Avoid checking the books you want, or like me, there are a lot of books you want to hold (e.g. The harvest sunrise). Try the Libby app. If you have a Kuka, you can enter it into the app and start, and if not, it will guide you through a process.
look? Books other than Amazon are easy. It’s easier for workers and the planet. Happy reading!
Photo by Stanislav Kondraratiev
