José María Mateos on Sat, 7 Apr 2018 18:54:02 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> Surveillance Valley - a polemic review 

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:30:56PM +0200, Carsten Agger wrote:
> *Note: */This is a review of Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley. I
> did not buy this book on Amazon, and if, after reading this post, you
> consider buying it, I strongly urge you not to buy it on Amazon.
> Amazon is a proprietary software vendor and, more importantly,
> company with highly problematic business and labour practices. They
> should clean up their act and, failing that, we should all boykot
> them. /

Amazon works very nicely for me, however: they provide a nice catalog 
that I can search and then contact my local bookstore / pet store / 
whatever with the proper product specifications. I have been talking to 
some friends about this: get out of the You Need This Now (TM) mentality 
and use Amazon as a global catalog for your local purchases; make sure 
some of your buck ends up on the local coffee shop, or it may close.

Cheers,

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José María (Chema) Mateos
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