Housmans, the radical bookshop based in King’s Cross, north London, has launched a website intended to provide an “ethical alternative” to Amazon.
As Infinite Thought explains here, while the online giant reportedly treats its staff poorly — and while its pricing structure hurts the business of independent publishers — many of us continue to buy books through the site for lack of any other option.
As you can see, the Housmans website is still experiencing a few glitches, but at the time of posting it has given prominent positions to two NS-endorsed books: Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s The Spirit Level and Paul Mason’s Live Working or Die Fighting.
Worth bookmarking, I’d say.
Content from our partners
Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month
Related
