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Biblioasis international translation volume no. 32
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Picking up where Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the impact of new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting Carrion's essays on these vital cultural spaces, as well as interviews with the writers who love them, Against Amazon is equal parts a history of books and bookshops, a reader's autobiography, a travelogue, a love letter--and, urgently, a manifesto against the corrosive pressures of late capitalism."--...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examines Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's ascent to power and the global impact of the empire he built. The film also investigates the darker side of the company's rapid growth: worker exploitation, product safety problems, and surveillance; as well as the challenge of trying to rein in the power of the richest man in the world.
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