June 18, 2018 » MobyLives! Archives

Washington Post employees are asking Jeff Bezos for better pay, more job security, and other important things

If you have to ask a powerful person something, it’s good to open with some throat-clearing and good news. This is just how the Washington Post employees opened their recent petition to the… Read more »

Amazon

Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon's return policy damaging to authors and publishers? — Nikki Griffiths
Dave Eggers’ new hardcover will be available in indie bookstores only — Bryn Goldstein
"BoxedOut" campaign to warn customers of costs of shopping on Amazon this season — Ryan Harrington
What are the other options for those who think GoodReads “sucks” and is “just shy of unbearable”? — Athena Bryan

According to two researchers, self-help only helps The Man

Alex Primiani

Go to any party today and it won’t take long for revelers to start chalking every lamentable injustice in their lives up to the inherent evils of capitalism (which, fair). And while… Read more »

Welcome to your disco future, humanity

Ian Dreiblatt

Some books are just candy. It takes all kinds of books to make the world go round: discursuses on badassery, histories of world-shaping forces, modernist fever-dreams, far-out beardy shit. Sometimes a book comes… Read more »

Ok — we’re doing this all again, are we?

Melville House

Here we go again — a new week is starting, and all of us, everywhere, are just letting it happen. This is madness. But at the least, we shouldn’t walk into… Read more »