If you have a gift-giving holiday coming up . . .

[swan_tower]

. . . then this year, even more than most, please do consider buying from local businesses as much as you can. They're hurting badly in the pandemic, whereas Amazon is in no danger of going under. And if what you want to buy is books, and you also want to support independent businesses (whether they're local to you or not), I highly recommend Bookshop.org. Every time you buy from them, a portion of the proceeds goes to supporting independent bookstores.

(While I'm offering up good links: Ecosia is a search engine that both doesn't track your data, and works to plant trees around the world. I've been using it for several months now.)

(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/MaEuDd)

Comments

[marycatelli]

In fact, Bezos is setting records for net worth. . . .

I add that Amazon can also be slow for book orders. I mean considerably slower. As in, our local post office once registered it had received an order from elsewhere and got around to delivering it ten days later, and that STILL was earlier than the Amazon order I placed at the same time.