Selling books through Amazon is now part and parcel of a working author’s life. It would be a brave writer who decided to refuse to allow their work to be sold through earth’s biggest retailer. But that is exactly what Dave Eggers has done with his new book, The Every, which he has decreed can only be purchased from independent bookstores.
Sorry, Jeff Bezos; this one’s not for you.
It is hard to dismiss his decision to eschew Amazon as simply a quixotic act of rebellion by a washed-up has been
Eggers has form in this regard. His 2013 satire The Circle took aim at a monolithic social media and tech corporation run by a faux-messianic CEO (if you’re thinking Bezos meets Zuckerberg, you’re not wrong), and now its follow-up The Every continues the idea, but takes it to even more ridiculous heights. The corporation now controls online retail, social media and search engines, making it instrumental to everyone’s daily life.
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