In a sure-to-be-much-discussed article at Salon, Alexander Zaitchik wonders whether: 'By quietly supporting small presses and literary nonprofits, is Amazon backing book culture or buying off critics ?' in Amazon's $1 million secret.
Not an easy issue -- though of course it's presumably better that they give something rather than nothing (see, for example, the bad press they recently got in the Seattle Times, where Amy Martinez and Kristi Heim reported that Amazon a virtual no-show in hometown philanthropy).
Not an easy issue -- though of course it's presumably better that they give something rather than nothing (see, for example, the bad press they recently got in the Seattle Times, where Amy Martinez and Kristi Heim reported that Amazon a virtual no-show in hometown philanthropy).