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... 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. 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. 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. He shows how Amazon's ruthless discount
strategies mean authors, publishers, and even Amazon themselves can
lose money on every book sold. And he spells out a clear path to
resistance, in a world where consumers are struggling to get by.
In-depth research is interspersed with charming personal anecdotes
from bookstore life, making this a readable, fascinating, essential
book for the 2020s.