Links A-Go-Go (This Time With Publishers)

Re: Amazon!Fail:

Lilith Saintcrow talks about Amazon!Fail, monoculture and profit.

Amazon!Fail and the Cost of Freedom.

Richard Eoin Nash comments on Amazon!Fail as a het, white, cis-guy publisher.

Pandagon Weighs In on Amazon!Fail and Who Got Hammered in the "Glitch".



In the Interest of Getting One's Book Fix:

Paperback Swap AND
Swaptree are two sites where you can trade used books (among other things), user-to-user.

Indibound is a site for finding independant publishers. Not actually helpful if you are in Canada (or at least Ottawa), but if you're in the states, it's a place to start.

Powells in Portland may be a suitable alternative for those who want a large shop-online catalogue.

Alibris is a used/rare books website that connects independent used book sellers with buyers (similar to ABE Books).



Indi Publishers:

In Ottawa:

http://www.abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/

http://www.mercutiopress.com/main.html

http://www.oberonpress.ca/


( In Canada )

Ottawa Indi Bookstores:

http://www.perfectbooks.ca/

http://www.collected-works.com/

http://www.afterstonewallbooks.com/

http://www.venusenvy.ca/

http://www.bytownbookshop.ca/

http://www.nicholashoare.com/main.htm

http://www.octopusbooks.ca/

http://www.mothertonguebooks.ca/Welcome%20.html


More Under the Cuts:

( Used )

( Religious/Spiritual )

( Not Anglophone-Centric )

( Other Book Shops that Turned Up in the Search )

These are more here for my own benefit. ;-)

http://www.pennilesspress.com/index.htm

http://www.opinionatedlesbian.com/bulletin/opinionatedlesbian/articles/1570.aspx

Purple. Etc.

Picked up hairdye yesterday. One of the Feria ones, I think. A plum colour that, with any luck, will give me somewhat purple-ish hair.
:-D

The plan is to dye it tonight. :-D Kind of want to do the hot bath + toenail polish etc. thing, as well. :-)

[EDIT: Or... maybe I'm getting laid? ;-) /EDIT]


In other news: Sara continues to pack up and downsize her stuff. She's got a fancy big table (glass top + two marble pedistal-legs -- comes apart for easy storage) that she wants to get rid of, among other things. (I've asked her to email me a list that I can toss up here in the hopes of finding buyers -- or at least off-her-hands-takers -- more easily).


Have been re-reading Kathryn Payne's poetry book. Want to go poking in my Rhonda Douglas and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha as well.
I need to remember how to write in poems.


Friday: Due to the cancelation of the party in Shawville (alas), Sara will be going swing-dancing on Friday night. I will be going to Umi for poetry (provided that I've actually written anything!!!) and then to the Vimy Karaoke Fundraiser (at the Shanghai, hosted by Miz China Doll -- starts at 9:30pm). Miz Sara may end up joining me there, depending on how late the swing dancing goes (or joining me at Umi, depending on when said dancing starts).


Am looking forward to this evening. :-D


- TTFN,
- Amazon.

Link!Spam on Feminist Themes! Whee! :-)

From the Feminist Agenda:
The Zero-Sum Construction of Masculinity. This is a really neat article. Go read it.

From The Nation:
Patricia Williams on Michelle Obama.

From the Curvature:
Light a Candle for Angie Zapata. Related link (from TransGriot).

Also from TransGriot:
Alberta Transgender Rights Tipping Point?.

From HerSpective:
A Pro-Choice Analogy. Comments are, hm, a bit heavy-handed all around, but the analogy is interesting.

From The Feminist Underground:
History Repeats Itself with Gender and the Economy.

AND

From Womanist Musings:
Shelter from the Storm - an article on Canada’s largest national campaign dedicated to ending violence against women.


- TTFN,
- Amazon.