There are many reasons why we think you should resist Amazon, but the most important to us is that we want BookPeople, and ALL local businesses, to be around for another 50 years and longer. As noted by Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, in his zine-turned-book How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future, ‘Somewhere between 50 and 75 percent of money spent at local small businesses stays in your community, and the percentage for Amazon purchases can be much, much lower—sometimes as low as 0.’
To learn more, check out this truncated excerpt from How to Resist Amazon and Why. The recommended reading booklist below will provide further insight into why we are asking you to RESIST Amazon.
For a glimpse into the workings of filling an online order at an indie bookstore, watch BP-L take down Ominous Prime by Investing in the Local Economy!
