{"id":211358,"date":"2025-04-28T19:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/amazon-accidentally-plans-book-sale-event-at-same-time-as-independent-bookstore-day\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:58:06","slug":"amazon-accidentally-plans-book-sale-event-at-same-time-as-independent-bookstore-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=211358","title":{"rendered":"Amazon &#8220;Accidentally&#8221; Plans Book Sale Event At Same Time as Independent Bookstore Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s2982.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/bookstore-table.jpg.optimal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div class=\"bubblewrap bubblewrap--first\">\n<p><em>Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Amazon \u201cAccidentally\u201d Plans Book Sale Event At Same Time as Independent Bookstore Day<\/h2>\n<p>This Saturday was Independent Bookstore Day, a truly fun day to be a book person with access to, and affinity for, an independent bookstore. On April 15th, Amazon announced a week-long \u201cbook sale event\u201d that included the 26th. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/amazon-book-sale-on-independent-bookstore-day.html\">Several folks were not pleased about this<\/a>. And I can understand why of course. Amazon says that it was unintentional, though of course if you are an indie bookstore this rings pretty hollow. So either it was intentional\u2026or it wasn\u2019t. To my mind, either is a bad look for Amazon: either they new the optics would be bad and just wanted to flex anyway or it didn\u2019t understand that the optics would be bad. (The Machiavellian move would have been to have it the week before Independent Bookstore Day to pull forward any marginal book-buying dollars and claim \u201cwe didn\u2019t want to detract from the indies!\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bubblewrap bubblewrap--second\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cPoetry City\u201d: Iowa City, Iowa<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/poetry-city-iowa-city-iowa\/\">A pretty interesting city-profile of Iowa City<\/a>\u2013which I will cede without protest as the most literary city in the U.S. on a per capita basis (1000 writers out of 75,000 citizens. Park Slope could never). It is also smack dab in the middle of Iowa, which like the rest of the Midwest has gotten red (and redder) over the last few decades. I grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the University of Kansas, which enjoys\/endures a similar status as an oasis of strangeness for its state. Iowa City is iconic, but dozens and dozens of college-towns provide precious incubation and respite for people who think and exist differently. We\u2019re lucky to have them, and we should not take them for (land) granted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Books of Marie-Helene Bertino with Marie-Helene Bertino<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, I had the great privilege of talking to Marie-Helene Bertino about her complete published body of work. We <a href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/listen\/the-books-of-marie-helene-bertino\/\">talked through all five of her books<\/a> in chronological order\u2013what they meant at the time, how they connect to each other, and what she thinks of them now. This was on the occasion of the publication of her new and excellent short-story collection, <a product-id=\"0374616477\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374616477\/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374616477\" target=\"_blank\" butter=\"butter\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" title=\"Buy from Amazon\" data-title=\"Exit Zero\" data-publisher=\"FSG Originals\" data-releasedate=\"2025-04-22\" data-ean=\"9780374616472\" data-asin=\"0374616477\" data-author=\"Bertino, Marie-Helene\" class=\"butter\" rel=\"noopener\">Exit Zero<\/a>. This is a good gig sometimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"nl-signup\">\n<div class=\"nl-wrap\">\n<div class=\"nl-heading\">\n<p>Today In Books<\/p>\n<p>Sign up to Today In Books to receive daily news and miscellany from the world of books.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. 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