If you haven’t been paying attention, here’s the deal. Amazon has a new ‘Price Check’ app and they’re running a promotion around it.

You go into a bookstore, find something you like. Then you scan it with the price check app and if you buy it , Amazon will give you up to $5 off.

What absolute bulls–t. A big damn conspiracy for Amazon to use bookstores as showrooms for products and then turnaround and shamelessly undercut them. Oh, and keep in mind that these are the things that a local bookstore does that Amazon does not:

Pays sales taxes to support your police and fire departments, your children’s schools, and roads

Pay property taxes which also help with those things

Many indie bookstores also donate to your local community

Hire locals to work in the bookstore

Provide a community gathering place focused on literacy, culture and civic engagement

So, yes. You should boycott Amazon.