“By the morning of Cyber Monday, 11,463 people had pledged ‘to avoid shopping on Amazon from 1 to 25 December,’ promising to spend a combined total of £2.59m at other retailers.”
How Amazon Ended Up As Literary Enemy No. 1 (And What Happens Next)
“It wasn’t always this way. When Amazon first appeared, in the mid-90s, mailing books out of the Seattle garage of its founder, Jeff Bezos, it was greeted with enthusiasm. The company seemed like a useful counterweight to the big bookstore chains that had come to dominate the book-retailing landscape.”