Against Amazon : and Other Essays EPUB

by Jorge Carrion

Part of the Biblioasis International Translation Series series

EPUB

Download - Immediately Available

Please note: eBooks can only be purchased with a UK issued credit card and all our eBooks (ePub and PDF) are DRM protected.

Description

A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK

Good bookshops are questions without answers. They are places that provoke you intellectually, encode riddles, surprise and offer challenges â€¦ A pleasing labyrinth where you canâ€™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 Readerâ€™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 CarriÃ³n travels from London to Geneva, from Miamiâ€™s Little Havana to Argentina, from his own well-loved childhood library to the rosewood shelves of Jules Verneâ€™s Nautilus and the innovative spaces that characterize South Koreaâ€™s bookshop renaissance. Including interviews with writers and librariansâ€”including Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara, and Han Kang, among othersâ€”Against Amazon is equal parts a celebration of books and bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letterâ€”and, most urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive influence of late capitalism.