Discovered this morning on alternet.org, this new way to order books online:
blue people,
fertilize media revolution every time you buy a book (or cd or dvd) online.
Books We Like is "activist e-commerce", a way for progressives to use their online book purchases to effect change, by collectivizing their online book purchases (Amazon, Powells, etc.). BWL facilitates that, maximizing the resulting sales commissions, and pooling them to fertilize progressive independent media.
Every book purchase captures about a dollar that would otherwise go uncollected; that's potentially millions per year! (includes all subsequent purchases during that session, so start here for CDs and DVDs too.)
100% of profits go to public-interest media efforts, of which BWL is a good example.
So, I went there immediately, registered and made some recommendations. My name there is gypsymoth, but my recommendations are all pretty much things I've written about here. Anyway, check it out. A way to help progressive causes and get the books you want. Also to connect with a bookish progressive community. What a deal!
2 comments:
Cool! Thanks for passing this on, although their website seems to be having some trouble right now, so I'll try it again later! Maybe it will fill in my need for progressive reading until they FINALLY get the Progressive Book Club up and running! http://www.progressivebookclub.com/
What a coincidence. I just discovered this site yesterday. Hopefully, they'll fix the kinks soon.
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