Similarly, I was approaching the intersection of 5th Ave and 20th St with a co-worker when she suddenly grabbed my arm. I assumed she was worried I was going to step off the curb and get smashed by a passing truck but no, Andrew Scott had just passed us and I completely missed him.

-Libya... the US is using the country they destroyed in 2011, and which remains extremely weak and vulnerable to imperial pressure.

Evil doesn't even begin to describe what we are witnessing. All with the complicity of Western leaders and the cowardly silence of the Western press.

Casa Magazines has a meow??

But if consumer habits shift far enough that the risk involved in abandoning Amazon is no longer a fatal risk, authors organizing around this issue would be amazing and effective

That’s a great long term goal, but until Amazon has less than the lion’s share of book sales, publishers cannot afford to not have their titles there. Academic publishers like DUP have very small profit margins - even the big five publishers would quickly fold if they didn’t list on Amazon.

Because an author almost never has a say. Her book with Duke University Press is distributed just as all books with DUP are distributed: through major content group Ingram, who of course distributes to Amazon.