It would be cool if book lovers supported the stock of Barnes & Noble the way Reddit and Wall Street Bets supported GameStop.
The support of GameStop was both a money making opportunity but also a way to stick it to Wall Street short-selling hedge funds who had targeted the favorite store from many a gamers childhood.
Likewise support of Barnes & Noble could be looked at as a defense against censorious Amazon and Jeff Bezos who somehow got it in his head that he is solely responsible for deciding which books are OK to read.
Yes used bookstores are among my favorite places but this country needs more than one major outlet for new books. We can't let Amazon become a monopoly for new books otherwise we may also be giving up our freedom to read what we want. Support Barnes & Noble.
This post was inspired by this article: Last chance to end the tech tyranny.
We didn't save Waldenbooks. We didn't save B. Daltons. B&N calls themselves a bookseller but devotes more floorspace to a cafe, toys, music, and tchotchkes than actual books. They can die.
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