Contra Amazon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9788417747824)

Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon and Other Essays explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. In essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, Jorge Carri travels from London to Geneva, from Miami's Little Havana to Argentina, from his own well-loved childhood library to the rosewood shelves of Jules Verne's Nautilus and the innovative spaces that characterize South Korea's bookshop renaissance. Including interviews with writers and librarians―including Alberto Manguel, Iain Sinclair, Luigi Amara, and Han Kang, among others―Against Amazon is equal parts a celebration of books and bookshops, an autobiography of a reader, a travelogue, a love letter.

Author: Jorge Carrion
ISBN-10: 8417747826
ISBN-13: 9788417747824
Publisher: Batiscafo
Language: English
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.35w x 0.55d