What's Wrong With Amazon.com

This webstore, and almost all independent bookstores around the country, feel that Amazon.com is a destructive force in the world of bookselling. Their unfair business practices often undermine the ability of local bookstores to survive. They are willing to sell books at a loss in order to get customers to their website to buy more expensive items.  We can't compete with their prices because we have real expenses at our bricks-and-mortar locations. Meanwhile, our customers expect us to match the prices of Amazon; so, we struggle to educate customers and remind them that low prices come at a high cost to labor, communities, publishers, and the environment.

In addition, Teaching for Change's Busboys and Poets Bookstore is pleased to have ebooks available for our supporters who have decided to use electronic reading devices.  We  suggest that the best readers available are the ones that allow downloads from a wide variety of sources.  The Kindle is possibly the worst choice because the reader is linked exclusively to Amazon, the Walmart of the bookselling world. See this ebooks matrix for further info about e-readers: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_Reader_Matrix

If you are looking for used books, consider using the Teaching for Change portal at Powells.com. Sales from both sites help fund our bookstore and publication operations.