A Forbes contributor has suggested replacing libraries with Amazon bookstores
I hate everything about this, but here we go. Panos Mourdoukoutas, chair of the economics department at LIU-Post and a writer for Forbes, has published an opinion piece suggesting that Amazon Books stores… Read more »
Booksellers across the country reflect on the impact of Amazon Books
This week, the American Booksellers Association published a field report on independent booksellers facing competition from the first wave of Amazon Books, the internet retailer’s unsavory foothold in meatspace. The first… Read more »
And lo, it was called Saturday; and it was very good
Hello out there, everybody! First and perhaps most important: congratulations. Another instance of that most bewildering and horrendous of human institutions, the dreaded “week,” has passed, and you, you brave and… Read more »
There is a profession called bookseller and Amazon Books doesn’t hire them
I’m all for innovation. Hell, I even get excited about that eye-roll-inducing buzzword, “disruption.” If you have a truly original idea, better than what’s come before, it’ll always upset the… Read more »
Amazon Books to descend on New York like a swarm of locusts
Brace yourselves! This year, after months of cross-continental rubbernecking and anxious blogging, New York City will reluctantly quarter not one but two iterations of Amazon Books, the brick-and-mortar “boots on… Read more »
Amazon’s assault on the galaxy continues; indies in Chicago land a counterassault
As we’ve written many times before, there is a dark force sweeping through our universe. Capable of destroying entire local economies, and organized around the despotic whims of a single, nefarious overlord,… Read more »
“You fool! This isn’t even my final form!”
Listen, you can say a lot of things about Amazon and its professional Mr. Burns impersonator-cum-CEO Jeff Bezos. But we’re not here to call names or point fingers. We’re here… Read more »
“This deal’s getting worse all the time!”
It’s been about eight months now since Amazon, an online retailer that recalls the Gilded Age in its approach to markets, doesn’t turn a profit, and doesn’t want consumers to… Read more »
Dangdang.com to open 1,000 bookstores in China
E-retailers the world over are finally realizing the importance and joys of brick-and-mortar bookstores—or something like that. Yes, it would seem that physical bookstores are on the rise: there are tech-bros in… Read more »
So why did Amazon open a bookstore?
Stories about Amazon’s latest skullduggeries, you may have noticed, have shorter and shorter life spans. At least within the industry. The company’s endless series of monopolistic accomplishments have been so… Read more »