When a company’s workers are literally dying on the job,when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendorswhen their CEO is the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas… wouldn’t you want to resist? Danny Caineowner of Raven Book Store in LawrenceKansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. In this bookhe lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to smalllocalindependent businesses. Well-researched and livelyhis tale covers the history of big box storesthe big political drama of deliveryand the perils of warehouse work. He shows how Amazon’s ruthless discount strategies mean authorspublishersand even Amazon themselves can lose money on every book sold. And he spells out a clear path to resistancein a world where consumers are struggling to get by. In-depth research is interspersed with charming personal anecdotes from bookstore lifemaking this a readablefascinatingessential book for the 2020s.