Buy Books Responsibly

Few of us consider the impact of buying a book online. We hear about a book, so we search for it on Google and end up on Amazon with that book swiftly in our cart. If we are Prime members, it may even be at our house by day’s end, or at least within the next forty-eight hours. If we read ebooks, possession is instantaneous. I understand that there are times when such rapid acquisition of a book is necessary, but those circumstances tend to be the exception, not the rule.

Amazon is Changing the Book Industry for the Worse

Simply because Amazon has the best SEO does not mean it should dominate the bookselling (and, in turn, the publishing) industry. Each of us has the power to make a different choice and support independent, local or regional booksellers, authors, and publishers in our book buying.

Support Local, Independent Booksellers and Make a Different Choice.

Want to Read More about Amazon, the Internet and 21st Century Book Sales?

• IndieBound: Spotlight on Amazon

• The Atlantic: Amazon’s Plan to Conquer the Publishing Juggernaut (Sept. 2019)

• Publishers Weekly: Indie Booksellers Incensed as Amazon Breaks ‘Testaments’ Embargo (Sept. 2019)

• Nieman Lab: Book Publishers are Suing Amazon… (Sept. 2019)

• The Atlantic: How To Fight Amazon (Before You Turn 29) (July/Aug. 2018)

• LitHub: “Even Americans Who Hate Amazon Can’t Seem to Live Without It: It’s Designed to Be Addictive” (19 May 2020)