Resist Amazon Reading List
Every year Amazon runs its "Prime Day" deals. We know sometimes it really is the most affordable way to get something (and sometimes not), and they've made themselves virtually inescapable, but at what cost?
Most book distributors sell on Amazon because, well, they have to. Amazon has cornered the market. We split from that practice in 2018 and never looked back.
If you're looking to break up with Amazon too (or rag on a billionaire, that's always fun), here's a list for you.
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses…
How to Defend Books and Why: Book Bans and How We Fight Them
You're invited to the book revolution! Fight back against censorship and empower your community with this close look at…
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
Can bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places,…
Sticker #610Amazon Instruction Manual
Amazon has spent nearly three decades devaluing the book industry and selling books at a loss. This sticker by…
Sticker #629Bring Me The Head of Jeff Bezos
For his crimes of devaluing the book industry, exploiting worker labor, and just generally being an evil billionaire, we…
A People's Guide to Publishing: Building a Successful, Sustainable, Meaningful Book Business From the Ground Up
So, you want to publish books. Drawing on 30 years of experience operating an independent publishing company, Joe Biel…
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Amazon’s sprawling network of delivery hubs, data centers, and corporate campuses epitomizes a land where winner and…
Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful
An informative and funny deconstruction of how the giants of American capitalism shape our world. Darryl Cunningham…
Against Amazon: and Other Essays
Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise…
Pin #222Capitalism Displaces
Gentrification exists and persists in cities everywhere. There's a lot of finger pointing and shouting going on, and…
50 Ways to Protect Bookstores
Bookstores are important. So are booksellers. And they—and the ideas and communities they serve—need protection.…
Punching Out: Solidarity on the Factory Floor
In 1952 Marty Glaberman was a Detroit autoworker who had participated in wildcat strikes and UAW union policing of the…
Unions for Beginners
Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Having a safe working environment? Unions made it possible. As the…
Sticker #451I Support My Local Independent Bookstore
Independent bookstores are amazing! A refuge and glue for any community, they provide a safe space, brain food, and…
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses
In the last 40 years, big-box stores have come to rule the US landscape. Mega-retailers sprawl out beyond the edges of…
Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It
Bezos: richest man on the planet, man behind the choke-hold on the shipping industry, and notorious for abusing his…
Resist Monopolies!: How to Fight Corporate Control and Support an Economy That Matters
What can we do to resist monopolies in a world that tells us they’re too big to fail and too strong to fight? We take…
Sticker #242Record Profits = Unpaid Wages
CEOs like to think that they are the reason their companies are valuable. But you know better. Slap up this sticker to…