The European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF), who speaks on behalf of more than 25,000 individual booksellers of all kinds in Europe and beyond, is proud to join the ‘Make Amazon Pay’ campaign, together with a coalition of trade associations and unions from around the globe - including Progressive International and UNI Global Union.
Like every year, from Black Friday up until Cyber Monday, digital giants like Amazon see record-breaking profits soar as they engage in anti-competitive business practices to lure customers towards their online platforms. By engaging in systematic tax avoidance, compounding the climate crisis, and undermining labour, privacy and digital rights, Amazon’s business model has proved to be problematic for a wide range of industries, and the book sector is no exception.
Read the full statement below to gain further insight on how Amazon’s business model gravely harms bookshops – and remember that we can all play a part in contrasting this! This Black Friday, shop local and contribute to mending your community’s social fabric, one book at a time.
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