Excellent guest, great analysis of what’s happening to our democracy with unregulated capitalism. No democracy without social justice. We are fast becoming an oligarchy or a fascist theocracy or both.

@jansmitowiczauthor78

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, and the GQP is now openly anti- democracy 🤬

@formerfundienowfree4235

2 жыл бұрын

@@jansmitowiczauthor78 because "cancelling" people is so Democratic. That's totally a Leftist snowflake mentality.

Good for him. Amazon should have been broken up years ago. I never buy through Amazon, and I am working on getting off of Facebook. If our government was working as it should, these monopolies would not exist as they do.

@SG-tf1fx

2 жыл бұрын

Facebook is horrible..the only thing good about it is the marketplace to buy and sell.. I got rid of the friend part of it .now just crafts and buy and sell ..Amazon is harder for me to get rid of..Hard to find items are available only on Amazon..

I remember the days when Eggers gave cheeky readings at City Lights Books. He has managed to keep his integrity. Hats off to him!

It's reminiscent of '1984' where everyone was complicit in the end.

“Just pull the plug , go out and play!” was what my Great Grandmother used to say to all her children (any generation) This was a basic rule that still helps to navigate through the digital djungle called “Life”. Who really n.e.e.d.s. Bits & bytes? Thank you for this brilliant interview!

Another remark. His sense that we desire stability and for things to be easy may also account for the horrifying trend towards authoritarianism.

@varrantgreen4259

2 жыл бұрын

No that was understood 30 years ago to be caused by the impending corperateocracy.

@formerfundienowfree4235

2 жыл бұрын

But things AREN'T easier. So many apps, passwords, accounts, emails...it is totally absurd to me as a gen xer

This is wonderful, thanks, Dave. I will go to my favorite independent stores and get the book.

I get the convenience of an ebook, etc. that all of you below are talking about. But I LOVE getting a new book at the bookstore (the red balloon is one), and I love the atmosphere of picking out that new book in a real bookstore. Best of all? Turning an actual page, the smell of newsprint, etc. I do not get the same satisfaction from digital books. It almost seems like you lose the connection to the author when you read a book on a device vs. turning an actual page.

@phongphong4640

2 жыл бұрын

Spilling coffee on the pages while I'm reading the book is very satisfying.

@e-spy

2 жыл бұрын

@@phongphong4640 yes! coffee is a must!

So proud of Eggers for this, I had to come back and write another comment.

@demetriusmiddleton1246

2 жыл бұрын

Too bad it's a lie

@jnnx

2 жыл бұрын

Are you his baby momma?

"The Every" is not yet available at Los Angeles Public Library, although many Dave Eggers works are. What is the release date? Looking forward to it.

Less analytical thinking. Group thinking=security.

I don’t shop the Universal store either. Amazon has consumed online retail.

I certainly support these sentiments, but what do you do when you 'self-publish' through an Amazon subsidiary, and indies won't carry the novel? Happy to hear advice on this.

It's hard to break the pattern, due to habit, comfort zone and lack of education. The basis for me is to know what you really need versus what you want and then choose your vendor accordingly. Break monopoly by answering the question: what's difficult and inconvenient? What will you be loosing truly?

Just read the Every. It’s a superb book, the new 1984.

Name the next book, "Why Amazon Sucks" and watch it go to the top of their bestseller list.

@whazzat8015

2 жыл бұрын

Pre ordering , now.

Everybody talks about freedom but the truth is, most people don't want choice or to have to make decisions. It's much more comforting & less scary when others make decisions for us.

This guy is spot on. Very existential. Lot to ponder.

Fantastic talk. These two wonderful thinking individuals and great authors creat an oasis of sanity and perspective in this 16 minute chat.

I live in a city of 300,000+, and not a single independent bookstore.

Go and try to get a local small bookstore to carry your work. Every slot is calculated for max quick profit and unless you've got much else going for you, you won't get in---or they'll take your book that cost you for ex. $10 to produce, but give you only $3 if they sell it. So there's no point in showing up at 99% of these places anyway.

I heard about Eggers on an NPR show and loved what I heard. But, when I looked him up I found his latest book advertised for sale on... Amazon...?! What's up with that?

Could anyone tell me how to contact Dave Eggars, as i want to pursue my research upon his novels.

Yikes! Just Googled "The Every" and it shows as being for sale on Amazon!!!!

@demetriusmiddleton1246

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this was just for publicity

@heidis3993

2 жыл бұрын

@@demetriusmiddleton1246 Actually, I did not mean it that way. And later on I realized that the Amazon result seemed to appear only in the ads preceding the actual search results. (I had narrowed the results to "Shopping.") It also looked as if some of the copies listed were second-hand. Leaving aside the questions of if and how these things are possible or allowable, any secondhand dealer could list the book on Amazon, I would think; I don't see how that could be legally prevented. Which may be part of what Mr Eggers referred to as the difficulty of preventing his book from being sold on Amazon.

@DianaRowanBrightWay

2 жыл бұрын

Publishers send out many books for review, and lots of these end up on amazon for resell.

I just found The Every on Amazon. Can someone explain?

@SgtMacska

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, see the responses to other such comments

@zanhoven3838

2 жыл бұрын

The responses to the others questioning this does not account for it being on AMAZON Kindle

The greatest stress on most people’s lives, from Gen X on, is being over worked, underpaid, and exploited, NOT choice

We need privacy to question power. We need privacy to organize against tyrannical concentration of power.

I agree with his observation of what appears as fact👍

I will stick with the book The Circle. I am not upgrading to Every. Nice book.

1984? Try "Neuromancer" by William Gibson.

Haven’t bought anything off Amazon in about 2 years. It’s not convenient, and that’s why it’s important. The only language these companies speak is the language of money, so that’s how we must communicate with them.

Funny he says that the novel will be off of Amazon. I see this will be available on Nob 16 on Kindle

Back in 2016, I bought through Amazon a book published in Ireland that ridiculed the former guy, because it wasn’t available in Australia. That was the first and only time that I used Amazon and I’ll never use it again, yet, I get calls from them about my account, which is non-existent. Bezos is a greedy needy little man and I intend to do my part to see him permanently in space.

I found the book at my local library.

I avoid Amazon even when my job gives me Amazon gift cards. Also, my first option is to buy local and visit brick and mortar.

15:02

Double yikes-- both books mentioned are available via Amazon.

@marceechristensen2533

2 жыл бұрын

He alluded to the books ending up on Amazon because there are resellers buying books and selling them on Amazon

@sphinxy_phoenix

2 жыл бұрын

@@marceechristensen2533 Thank you!

Whatever makes literature more affordable is good for America. Expensive literature is out of reach of specific segments of America because for one, they don't have it in their budget to buy it, and two, they don't even know it exists, because they don't even look, because they know ahead of time they can't afford to buy it. I am sorry for the artists who are deprived of profiting more fully from their works, but we HAVE to push good literature to the masses.

@formerfundienowfree4235

2 жыл бұрын

Happily, there are still more libraries than McDonald's in America.

I hope the author doesn't think that Barnes and Noble is a good outlet for his book vs Amazon. But I will shop Barnes but not Amazon. Amazon is the new KMart/Walmart without seeing the workers who are unitized.

It is listed on Amazon

Dave Eggers sounds as though he got stuck in a past era when people still bought paper books. I have been buying all my books as eBooks since 2011 ... either from Amazon for Kindle or from Apple. It is easier to read because you can choose the typeface, font size, background colour, lighting ... it doesn't require that trees be cut down (paper). Also the eBook is weightless, can be carried on any small digital device that you carry in your pocket ... along with thousands of other eBooks, all weightless, an entire library in your pocket. I used to work in a bookstore and in 2012 business had fallen to the point where most shelves were replaced with other 'gift' items, while the book shelves shrank. Does this guy not realize that if a person like myself, age 64, no longer buys paper books, then there's little hope that young people who have grown up in a digital world, with all their data in their back pocket ... would ever consider going to some independent bookstore to buy a paper book ... that would not only add extra weight to their backpack (if they carry one) ... but would also add unwanted clutter to any tiny, postage stamp sized apartment that they might still be able to afford ... or clutter to their tiny room in their parents' basement. :-)

@heidis3993

2 жыл бұрын

I can see that it might be convenient to load up 100 mystery novels to read while travelling on vacation, but I find an e-book to be a poor thing in comparison to a real book. The books I read are mostly ones that are of continuing interest to me, to which I will want to add notes and markings, which I will want to refer back to, to recommend to others. A book on a shelf can remind you of its existence in a simple way, while scrolling through a miniaturized list of thousands of titles .. is just undoable. And I don't have patience with learning how to annotate in yet another application's methods. I first learned that type of thing 40 or 50 years ago, and I'm out of patience with applications. Anyone who knows how to write knows how to annotate a printed book, and that printed book and its annotations will exist and be readable long after that application has been left in the dust by the new newest replacements. Well, I know that many people see it the way you do, and I'm not trying to convince you to adopt my opinions. Each to his own taste.

@thinkabout602

2 жыл бұрын

If we are well educated and well read already we can use Amazon, Twitter and Facebook wisely. Unfortunately our local school systems are failing us - from a retired teacher.

@shawnpark7620

2 жыл бұрын

@@heidis3993 my niece likes the smell of a new book..can't get that electronically....go figure😀

@galefraney

2 жыл бұрын

@@heidis3993 ... Not only can you highlight any words, sentence or paragraph in transparent "highlighter pen" of any colour you choose, by simply touching the words wth your finger ... but you can also annotate anything, also by simply touching the screen where you want the note to appear. These highlights and notes are then searchable, by simply touching the Menu bar, you can instantly find any note or highlighted text without having to flip through pages. In addition, to address your comment regarding paper books on a shelf reminding you of their existence, eBooks are kept on a 'virtual shelf' that shows each book cover picture with title, author, etc. sitting side-by-side on a virtual 'wooden' shelf or any shelf of your choice, which is made to look exactly like a real bookshelf. Also, by simply touching any word or phrase, a dictionary pops up on the screen ... or access to online thesaurus, encyclopedia, Wikipedia, etc. You can also translate any word or phrase by simply touching and holding your finger on a word, phrase, sentence or paragraph. Many of the great old books are now available for free in the public domain ... books that used to weigh a ton, like Tolstoy's War and Peace in eBook or PDF form are as light as a feather, or how books like Ulysses by James Joyce ... or I'm currently reading Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (a book I once borrowed from a Library, but it was so huge and heavy so not suitable for my long bus rides to and from work, hence never got past the first few chapters -- so I'm reading it now as an eBook, freely available in the public domain). In addition, with a few touches of the screen, you can change the typeface and font size, can even change margin width and line spacing!! You can choose a soothing background colour, like a muted sepia or gray that is much easier on aging eyesight. Now when I pick up a paper book, I find myself wanting to adjust the margins or line spacing, or find the meaning of a word, or translate a phrase ... and to do so while on a bus would mean also hauling out a phone or iPad ... and then trying to hold open the unwieldy book while simultaneously navigating a digital device to open the dictionary or translate App ... super inconvenient and impractical ... better to have them both on the one device and have the dictionary and translate available at a simple touch of the finger on the page.

@heidis3993

2 жыл бұрын

@@shawnpark7620 The last time I was in Paris, which was 20 or more years ago, books were still being sold with uncut pages. Awareness that a book's pages used to be cut open by its (first) reader is fading away.

Ah, not even two months later and it's on Amazon now. Oh well

No line

I use Amazon because there are so few other choices and ease of searching. It has become very abusive in its marketing. Race to the bottom with counterfeit products and killing optiions. Complexity limits options in many ways for the few, rather than expand for the many. It excommunicates

This is why I don't shop with Amazon

I'll have to read this book cause the concepts where interesting. The prose was mediocre and the characters where all one amorphas blob. But His writing will get better. He will be a popular writer. his work might already be in the class of great sci Fi classics.

He's really worried about a security state after the insurrection, really?

Publishers aren't regulated and can disemminate lies. Your example carries no real meaning.

Book stores! Fuch the millennial shopping experience.

Do we have a choice with Amazon? It has the biggest selection for ANYTHING we need and with those of us on a fixed income we have to use it. Amazon is usually the cheapest. Maybe if people were paid more they COULD go elsewhere. Facebook is easy, just stay off it and set your phone/ computer setting to keep it out of your life.

@e-spy

2 жыл бұрын

well, consider that many of the products you buy on Amazon are counterfeit. Amazon chooses not to police such things. Also, many of the "reviews" on amazon are fake, even when they say verified purchase. I'm out. We really don't need amazon, folks, and we should start saying so. How? with our dollars.

@thenorthernspinozist397

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zoe-bf3wg You missed my point.Living on a fixed income is the deteminte factor.

@thenorthernspinozist397

2 жыл бұрын

@@e-spy I am all for breaking up the monopoly that Amazon has become but as I say for those on fixed income price is the deteminte factor in shopping there.

@thenorthernspinozist397

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zoe-bf3wg So what!

@paranoah1925

2 жыл бұрын

@@thenorthernspinozist397 Buy less. Don't buy things you can do without or borrow or rent or just use something else in place of. I know it is a radical thing for Americans to consider not buying everything, but try it. Then you will have both more time and more money