On Amazon (briefly) and Panamerica Books

One great hypocrisy of book publishing is our relationship with Amazon. Everyone opines that Amazon is bad for business and that Bezos is an evil imp who sold our democracy down the river, and yet, the majority of publishing retail still goes through Amazon 1 (I would also wager that most industry colleagues are Prime members). And so, when y’all are crying into your coffee about Trump, saying you didn’t vote for him, I am here to remind you that, in fact, you did. Your support for Amazon was (is) a vote for Trump. You wonder about the resistance? It starts there2.