Amazon Guilt
We’ve all felt a little bit guilty saving a few pennies buying from Amazon rather than our neighborhood independent bookseller. But what about Amazon employees—do they experience guilt when shopping…
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The Incidental Bookseller
In n+1‘s continuing examination of Amazon, Ruth Curry, co-founder of online bookstore Emily Books, looks at the relationship of the online megastore to publishers. Amazon’s entry into the publishing world…
Amazon.com vs. The Universe?
In The New Yorker this week, George Packer covers what sounds like a battle between serf states but is actually the heated war between Amazon, Apple and the Big 6…
Barbara Berman’s 2nd Annual Holiday Book Column
I love it when well known people agree with me, especially when they time it to go with a piece I am working on. Super-agent Andrew Wylie did just that,…
The Return of the Indie Bookstore
Could Amazon actually be helping indie bookstores? It seems counterintuitive, but after a devastating reduction in numbers in the late ’90s, the American Booksellers’ Association has finally started to grow—albeit…
Amazon Purchases Washington Post
What exactly does it mean that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has purchased the Washington Post?
Goodbye to Goodreads
If you’re feeling a little queasy about Amazon’s buyout of Goodreads, Book Riot has compiled a list of alternative book-based social networks. A few of them seem defunct, and one…
Don’t Worry Too Much About Goodreads, Says Steve Almond
Amazon’s buyout of Goodreads has a lot of people curling their lips in disgust, and Rumpus columnist Steve Almond is among them: “As a reader and writer I find all this…
Amazon.com & Goodreads Link Up
Today, the Goodreads’ social network of book reviews and reading suggestions was acquired by online retail giant Amazon. While we are super bummed about this, Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s Vice President, says: “Amazon and…
Best, Worst Review
Perhaps you’re the type that has stopped reading the comments section. Brian Allen Carr is not that type. Especially with regards to the comments written in his Amazon.com review section. After…
Amazon bans Authors from posting book Reviews
If you’re an author on Amazon, your days of posting book reviews may have come to an end. Amazon’s new book review policy classifies Amazon authors as competitors, and competitors…
Self-published Author Takes On Amazon
After two years of global roaming, Andrew Hyde funded his self-published travel book This Book Is About Travel through the website Kickstarter. His funders indicated their overwhelming preference that his…