[Newspoetry] good time to start boycotting amazon.com

[gillespie william k]

Being asked to boycott Amazon.com is like being asked to give up the first
amendment. Being able to buy obscene, dissident, and otherwise
semi-marketable literature - even through a creepy e-market economy and
dubious corporations - is one of the fundamental definitions of a decent
society. For me. There can be no desirable society without Kathy Acker
- and easy access to her writing - pushing the boundaries of what's
writeable. For me. 

So should I shop at barnes and noble dot com or borders dot com?
Monopolizers, union busters, independent bookseller slaughterers?

I'd love to support my (one) local independent bookseller - even though I
don't like their store very much - except that ordering books through them
takes four weeks longer and I don't have a car to drive out there.

Also the taxes go to Savoy, which is only sort-of local.

Opinions? 

W

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 sigfried at shout.net wrote:

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