Comments on: Amazon Bookstore Cooperative for sale

By: Terri

Terri — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:14:08 +0000

Yes! You can order books at http://www.amazonbookstorecoop.com/ the same way you would other online stores. Just put what you’re looking for in that little search box and they will ship it to you, wherever you live.

There are alternatives to feeling sad about the situation Amazon is in. Just change where you are buying the books you already buy! In 1993, there were 124 women’s bookstores across the country, and now there are less than 15. We can stop this erosion!

By: Gil in Mexico City

Gil in Mexico City — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:15:21 +0000

Don´t mean to pile it on, but if all of us supported these small mom & mom stores they would not be doing badly. Allison has done a brilliant job at exposing the fact that our constant desire for new/cheap goods damages local economies. Perhaps at least we, as her enlightened readers, have stopped buying at Walmart (yes, they´re driving wages down in Mexico too!) et al?

By: erika

erika — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:15:43 +0000

I am sometimes working as a volunteer in the newly (one and a half year) opened feminist/lbgtq bookstore in stockholm, sweden and I do hope the bookstore youre writing about wont have to close. Madwimmin has really been a source of identification and inspiration for me when working for this bookstore in stockholm. and its so cool to read about amazon bookstore and madwimmin and imagine all these years, and to hope that our store will have that many years of bookselling, activism (and flirting)to come.

By: a little catch and release

a little catch and release — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:53:57 +0000

K.B., would you feel comfortable criticizing the strip to the author's face? Depends on your own feelings regarding what's appropriate or polite. AB herself may or may not see any of what we all say here, and may or may not care what we say. In the past, re: the purpose of her blog, she has said, and I quote with utmost care, "whatever". The DTWOF Livejournal community used to be a good place to discuss the strip, and could be again.

By: K.B.

K.B. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:51:05 +0000

Lily: you bring up an interesting issue. Has it been discussed on this blog before?

Obviously, this blog is a much better venue for discussing dtwof than we had before. (Remember the planet out bulletin board?)

On the other hand, now it’s become impolite to actually criticize the strip.

By: Boricua

Boricua — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:42:31 +0000

Saludos comadre!

It is a pleasure to know that someone checked those fine women out. Your post inspired me to take another look at the Reading Circles info – and I noticed that Amazon Bookstore was one of the two first sponsors of that project.

In the early days, women’s bookstores were a provocation, and a radical space to enter…it sounds like some of them still are, while also serving the role of being a comfortable space for a decidedly more comfortable set of people – literate feminists.

One of the things I love about WE LEARN, is that it is pushing right along with the feminist literacy movement that we inherited from the 70s – more radical literacy, more work to reach out and bring the margin to the center…where people of color are not a rare find at all, and where people who’ve had little educational opportunity are also numerous…and we all have things to say, and write, and read, and draw…and making room for that is making room for another radical, provocative, uncomfortable space that feminism needs as its lifeblood

siempre en la lucha

By: Feminista

Feminista — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:37:32 +0000

Boricua–Gracias for the links. I spent 2 hours reading the WE LEARN website. The students’ stories and their comments in the Reading Circles were fascinating.

Here in Portland,OR,we still have our independent feminist bookstore,In Other Words. IOW was the successor to A Woman’s Place Bookstore,which started in the 70s. What with Powell’s and our excellent library system,there’s no reason to go to Bounders or Bunns and Noodles.

By: Lily

Lily — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:10:49 +0000

Does Alison mind the critiques of her drawing? Because while I recognize that artists must thrive on critiques, it seems shockingly rude to me to so bluntly offer up such criticisms on her blog! Maybe I am just being old-fashioned again, though. I must admit, also, that while I am also an artist I don’t “read” her drawings with an eye towards critique, but rather with appreciation and pleasure. I know I couldn’t keep up with her cartooning!

By: Amazon 2.0

Amazon 2.0 — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:33:00 +0000

I just want to clarify that the reason the current staff can’t take over at Amazon for now is that the two of us who are committed to sticking around are both 20-somethings who financially can’t take responsibility for the business – it’s not because we don’t want to, it’s simply because there are debts we can’t reasonably take on. Please know that we are full of hope that a buyer will be motivated to work with us to continue to provide essential resources to all of you who know and love us!

By: Saskia

Saskia — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:38:00 +0000

I live in Saint Paul and love having Amazon close by, but I can’t resist giving a shout-out to my favorite feminist bookstore of all time: A Room of One’s Own, in Madison, WI. And a big thanks to all of the people who work in indie bookstores… you’re the best.