Indie booksellers urge you to resist the siren call of Amazon Prime Day.
In solidarity with the Amazon Strike—in which Amazon warehouse workers in a suburb of Minneapolis are striking to protest their terrible working conditions (unions of Amazon workers in Europe have staged strikes on Prime Days in the past, but the walkout in Minnesota represents the first major action of its kind in the U.S. during the aggressively-marketed, and paradoxically two-day, sales event)—and just because Amazon Prime Day is one of the most odious recent examples of late-stage capitalism in action, booksellers and impassioned book folk across the country have taken to Twitter to urge you to support your local indie bookstores instead of crossing the digital picket line.
We at Lit Hub wholeheartedly endorse the following tweets:
Instead of buying books from that one place on #PrimeDay, go to your local independent bookshop and browse, have a conversation, buy a book. If you don’t live near one, shop at one online.
(hopefully if you follow us you wouldn’t even consider shopping for books on Amazon)
— City Lights Books (@CityLightsBooks) July 14, 2019
Solidarity with #AmazonStrike; these brave workers are fighting for the future of dignified work & need your support! ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏾 Boycott #PrimeDay!
— Haymarket Books (@haymarketbooks) July 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/sarahw/status/1150760098710589440
https://twitter.com/JustineLavaworm/status/1150758859096690690
https://twitter.com/SheaSerrano/status/1150779108302958592
It's #PrimeDayAmazon & you know what that means…
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE 📚
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE 📚
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE 📚
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE 📚
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE 📚
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE 📚— Sophie Vershbow (@svershbow) July 15, 2019
Good morning and happy #PrimeDay! Today is prime time to support your local independent bookstore instead of an online retailer that does nothing for you and your community. #ShopLocal pic.twitter.com/rRlOC0plbQ
— East City Bookshop (@eastcitybooks) July 15, 2019
What's this, we're hearing? This company, the one that cozies up with ICE, an organization independent bookstores have committed nearly $100k to resist, has its own special day? Weird. https://t.co/ht8ILnu3Fh
— East Bay Booksellers (@EB_Booksellers) July 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/Malaprops/status/1149783050554892288
happy #PrimeDay, shop local, don’t cross picket lines pic.twitter.com/zOUIaLV6lh
— Raven Book Store (@ravenbookstore) July 15, 2019
