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Against Amazon and Other Essays by Jorge Carrin (Spain)
Translated by Peter Bush
First published as Contra Amazon by Galaxia Gutenberg, Barcelona, Spain 2019.
Copyright Jorge Carrin, 2019
Translation copyright Peter Bush, 2020
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher or a license from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Access Copyright). For an Access Copyright license visit www.accesscopyright.ca or call toll free to 1-800-893-5777.
First Edition
ISBN 978-1-77196-303-9 (Trade Paper)
ISBN 978-1-77196-304-6 (eBook)
Title: Against Amazon : and other essays / Jorge Carrin ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush.
Other titles: Contra Amazon. English
Names: Carrin, Jorge, 1976- author.
Series: Biblioasis international translation series; no. 32.
Description: Series statement: Biblioasis international translation series ; no. 32 |
Translation of: Contra Amazon.
Identifiers: Canadiana (ebook) 20200154095 | Canadiana (print) 20200154060 |
ISBN 9781771963046 (ebook) | ISBN 9781771963039 (softcover)
Subjects: LCSH : Amazon.com (Firm) | LCSH : Internet bookstores. | LCSH : Bookstores. |
LCSH : BookstoresSocial aspects. | LCSH : Electronic commerce. |
LCSH : Electronic commerceSocial aspects. | LCSH : Booksellers and bookselling.
Classification: LCC Z278.I568 C3713 2020 | DDC 381/.4500202854678dc23
Edited by Stephen Henighan and Daniel Wells
Copyedited by Emily Donaldson
Text design, typesetting and eBook by Tetragon, London
This book has been published with a subsidy from the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Spain.
C ontra Amazon. Siete razones / un manifiesto (Against Amazon. Seven reasons / a manifesto) was published online by Jot Down Magazine in April 2017. The Spanish magazine also printed several hundred posters that were sent to bookshops throughout Spain. They can still be found, framed, in Rata Corner in Palma de Mallorca, and in the corners of other front-line bookshops. In November that same year it appeared in English, translated by Peter Bush, digitally on Literary Hub and on paper in a beautiful hand-sewn pamphlet the Canadian publishing house Biblioasis sent to three hundred bookshops and journalists during the launch of Bookshops in America and Canada. The chapbook aroused such interest that my publisher, Dan Wells, ended up giving away almost five thousand copies to professionals in the trade across the world. It was also published in Portuguese in a translation by the Brazilian writer Reginaldo Pujol in the newspaper Folha de So Paulo . When Publishers Weekly focused on the unexpectedly international phenomenon in May 2018, Dan and I spoke on the phone and decided to put together this book, which immediately won the support of Joan Tarrida, my Spanish publisher. I began at once to assemble and read all the articles, essays, interviews, and chronicles I had published on the world of books in recent years. I selected the best ones. To my surprise, the word Amazon appeared in many of them. Alberto Manguel had even told me at one point, without my having asked him the question, I dont buy from Amazon, as if this were a necessary stance. Which camp are you in?
It seems impossible to write about activity in the world of books in the twenty-first century, about independent bookshops and the most innovative, challenging libraries, or the constellations of readers who remain faithful to the printed book, without thinking of Amazon as our adversary. Although Google Books and other big platforms have also influenced the ways in which we relate to texts, the multinational logistics firm headed by Jeff Bezos has become the most iconic and strident brand, the one that has violently changedand often damagedthe traditional relationships between reader and book. Amazon is a tentacled monster that continually grows and innovates. If a few details in my manifesto have become obsolete, its spirit remains relevant. At the beginning of 2019, thanks to the struggle led by Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York City rejected the plan to give Amazon $3.4 billion in incentives to set up a base there. Since then, when you key against Amazon into a search engine, its no longer just my manifesto that appears. In a parallel development, there has been a proliferation of Amazon deliverers roaming our streets with their big backpacks, as well as those working for other companies that, in their own ways, are equally disruptive. In neo-liberal style, they have made the precarious habits of the poor who collect cardboard and scrap metal their own.
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