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A review by jonscott9
50 Ways to Protect Bookstores by Danny Caine
5.0
This slimmest of softcover reads provides 50 ways to leave your lover (aka Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, etc.) I'm so glad I'm already an established Libro.fm user for audiobooks, in part supporting local shop Irvington Vinyl & Books. And needless to say, I'm checking out directly what StoryGraph has to offer as an alternative to this site I'm posting to now. I'm writing here not cynically but rather, as perhaps my last at-length review on GR, to give line of sight to this Great Little Read.
It's gross what GR owner Amazon is doing with our data and reviews on this site. Y'all, we've been taken. I've been sloppy and ignoring it for some time. I understand better now why my Bookstagrammer pals have migrated their reviews to their own websites or other venues, and why we all should do better.
Split into three sections, Danny Caine, a Kansas bookstore owner, shares how we can make better individual habits and choices, how policymakers and other power holders can aid, and how actively plugging into one's community makes a difference. Some of it's obvious; other parts give me pause (if briefly) at how I can be more intentional in my community.
Some favorites among these clear-eyed items:
16. Encourage your book club to team up with a bookstore
18. Move your online reviews off Goodreads
19. Read weird books
23. Break up Amazon
26. Worker-friendly legislation
30. Maximize book-discount legislation
41. Vote for all that "best of the city" shit
42. Write good reviews online (somewhere other than, well, here)
45. Go to bookstore events
47. Pay attn to attacks on libraries
50. Ask big Qs about the future of bookstores
In short, Danny Caine in 2024 (and beyond!).
It's gross what GR owner Amazon is doing with our data and reviews on this site. Y'all, we've been taken. I've been sloppy and ignoring it for some time. I understand better now why my Bookstagrammer pals have migrated their reviews to their own websites or other venues, and why we all should do better.
Split into three sections, Danny Caine, a Kansas bookstore owner, shares how we can make better individual habits and choices, how policymakers and other power holders can aid, and how actively plugging into one's community makes a difference. Some of it's obvious; other parts give me pause (if briefly) at how I can be more intentional in my community.
Some favorites among these clear-eyed items:
16. Encourage your book club to team up with a bookstore
18. Move your online reviews off Goodreads
19. Read weird books
23. Break up Amazon
26. Worker-friendly legislation
30. Maximize book-discount legislation
41. Vote for all that "best of the city" shit
42. Write good reviews online (somewhere other than, well, here)
45. Go to bookstore events
47. Pay attn to attacks on libraries
50. Ask big Qs about the future of bookstores
In short, Danny Caine in 2024 (and beyond!).