Book Club: How to Resist Amazon and Why - Sunday October 1st 6-7PM

Book Club will be meeting Sunday October 1st at 6-7PM. There is limited seats for book club and only 10 spots available! The deadline to sign up will be August 1st and books will be shipped to you by August 15th. Please be a subscriber to our newsletter for book club updates!

October's book is How to Resist Amazon and Why. This is a short read and offers great insight into how to stop the impulse purchases on this retail giant. This book has brought me so much insight into making purchases on Amazon it has drastically changed my view on the corporation. 

*** The price of this book is reflected in the fact that it is purchased from a small independent publishing house and distribution company. I am supporting a local business in Portland with every book club purchase***

"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 personalmoney 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"