/lit/ - Literature

A Kansas Bookshop’s Fight with Amazon Is About More Than the Price of Books
https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/a-kansas-bookshops-fight-with-amazon-is-about-more-than-the-price-of-books?utm_source=pocket-newtab

>If you know anything about the Raven bookstore in Lawrence, Kansas, then you know that it charges more for books than Amazon.
>Two years ago, he took that conversation to social media, using the store’s Twitter account to explain why the Raven was charging twenty-six ninety-nine for a hardcover book that a customer had seen online for fifteen dollars.
>Caine wrote. “Our cost for that book from the publishers would be $14.57. If we sold it for $15, we’d make . . . 43 cents.” Caine estimated that, with an inventory of some ten thousand books in the store, on a profit of less than fifty cents a book, the Raven could afford to stay open for about six days.
>after the publisher’s cut, half of every book sold goes directly to employee wages; the other half goes to rent, marketing, and other operating costs, including store maintenance, the Web site, and food and veterinary care for the Raven’s most famous employees, the cats Dashiell (as in Hammett) and Ngaio (as in Marsh).

these are the fucking losers you're supporting when you buy from local book stores: retards who insist on running an unprofitable business, screwing you over with higher prices, to live out their personal fantasies. they're mooching off your good will

bezos gang