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…
Sticker #610Amazon Instruction Manual
Amazon has spent nearly three decades devaluing the book industry and selling books at a loss. This sticker by…
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 #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…
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…
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…
Unions for Beginners
Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Having a safe working environment? Unions made it possible. As the…