Against Amazon
- Authors
- Jorge Carrión
- Publisher
- Biblioasis
- Tags
- nonfiction books;gifts for readers;gifts for book lovers;independent book store;local bookstore;shop small;book shopping;big data;jeff bezos;borges;barcelona;melbourne;readings;capri;the english bookshop;hoepli;helsinki;sanlian bookhouse;travel;guide;pilgrimage;shakespeare and co;books about books;bibliophilia;book lore;community;culture;history;biographies and memoirs;translation;spain;spanish
- Date
- 2020-08-24T15:49:26Z
- Size
- 1.32 MB
- Lang
- en
A history of bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letterand, most urgently, a manifesto.
Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer challenges ... A pleasing labyrinth where you can't get lost: that comes later, at home, when you immerse yourself in the books you have bought; lose yourself in new questions, knowing you will find answers.
Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon and Other Essays explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. In essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, Jorge Carrión travels from London to Geneva, from Miami's Little Havana to Argentina, from his own well-loved childhood library to the rosewood shelves of Jules Verne's Nautilus and the innovative spaces that characterize South...