Amazon, whose owner is the richest person on Earth, paid ZERO in federal income taxes in last year.
Some of its employees have fainted because of warehouse conditions. Others have said workers cry regularly at their desks.
Amazon is about to receive a $789 million tax break.
In celebration of #votes100 this week, our #throwbackthursday revisits some of our favourite 5 Minute Interviews with women in publishing. Here’s @Arifa_Akbar on the pleasures of reading everything from Emily Brontë to Jackie Collins. https://t.co/J9poObPdxK
Ali Smith's essay on Ella Fitzgerald in segregated America: 'While she's singing the nation's Song Books... she is touring the places where segregation claims she's a lesser person, along with every other black person on the planet.' A MUST READ ON BOUNDLESS TMRW! .@unbounders
MY BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
- THAT ONE THAT WON THAT PRIZE
- THAT ONE THAT WON THAT OBSCURE PRIZE
- THAT REALLY LONG ONE THAT YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO EVEN KNOW ABOUT
- THAT ONE THAT I READ A DECADE BEFORE IT WAS PUBLISHED BECAUSE I AM VERY IMPORTANT
- YOUR MUM
If you’re visiting, since we’re feeling festive, we’ve wrapped some presents for any children who come in! We’ll happily give a present to any child that comes into to the shop as every child should have books this Christmas.
It certainly *looks* like an independent publishing renaissance. But the only way to make sure we can all continue to build on this is if we all keep selling books.
Support your smaller presses! We are the beating cultural heart of the literary landscape.
My mom just joined Twitter and saw all the racist messages where people tell me to "go home" and "go back to where I came from." She wanted me to thank you all. She really wants me to move back to Texas.
Our friends @unbounders (the publishers of The Good Immigrant) have launched their own online literary magazine edited by the great @Arifa_Akbar. We can't wait to see the first stories. https://t.co/isSLJZwVHx