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A review by mchester24
How to Resist Amazon and Why by Danny Caine
4.0
I have to start by echoing others in here in acknowledging the irony of reviewing this book on Goodreads, an Amazon site. But I’m the spirit of learning and acting as an advocate I’ll do that and then also close is app and check out the alternative that Caine mentions.
I picked up and read a chapter and a half of this while in an independent book shop (shout out Tombolo Books in St Pete!) and that was enough to make me feel obligated to purchase it (and a high markup little magnet for further support) and I’m grateful for that pressure. I’ve always felt a drive for supporting with spending local businesses, especially bookstores, but this collection of thought pieces from a book seller really drove the why behind that and suggested further reasons to be leery of the Amazon model and what additional tactics and mindsets to adopt.
Will I overnight turn into a consumer eschewing every use of Amazon or Amazon partners? This review on this site shows the answer is clearly no. But will I start to evaluate the necessity of each of my uses of Amazon and explore alternatives where feasible? I definitely will.
I picked up and read a chapter and a half of this while in an independent book shop (shout out Tombolo Books in St Pete!) and that was enough to make me feel obligated to purchase it (and a high markup little magnet for further support) and I’m grateful for that pressure. I’ve always felt a drive for supporting with spending local businesses, especially bookstores, but this collection of thought pieces from a book seller really drove the why behind that and suggested further reasons to be leery of the Amazon model and what additional tactics and mindsets to adopt.
Will I overnight turn into a consumer eschewing every use of Amazon or Amazon partners? This review on this site shows the answer is clearly no. But will I start to evaluate the necessity of each of my uses of Amazon and explore alternatives where feasible? I definitely will.