Well-researched and lively, his tale covers the history of big box stores, the big political drama of delivery, and the perils of warehouse work. In this book, he lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to small, local, independent businesses. wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas.
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
And he spells out a clear path to resistance, in a world where consumers are struggling to get by.
He shows how Amazon's ruthless discount strategies mean authors, publishers, and even Amazon themselves can lose money on every book sold. In HOW TO RESIST AMAZON AND WHY, he lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to small, local, independent businesses. wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, who in addition to being one of our favorite poets is also the owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas.
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