Ursula K. Le Guin has it backward

Ursula K. Le Guin is asking people to not buy books from Amazon because they market bestsellers, the literary equivalent of junk food. She said last week

I believe that reading only packaged microwavable fiction ruins the taste, destabilizes the moral blood pressure, and makes the mind obese.

I agree with that. That's why I shop at Amazon.

If I liked to read best-selling junk food, I could find it at any bookstore. But I like to read less popular books, books I can only find from online retailers like Amazon. If fact, most of Amazon's revenue comes from obscure books, not bestsellers.

Suppose I want to read something by, I don't know, say, Ursula K. Le Guin. I doubt I could find a copy of any of her books, certainly not her less popular books, within 20 miles of my house, and I live in the 4th largest city in the US. There's nothing by her in the closest Barnes and Noble. But I could easy find anything she's ever written on Amazon.

If you'd like to support Amazon so they can continue to bring us fine authors like Ursula K. Le Guin, authors you can't find in stores that mostly sell packaged microwavable fiction, you can buy one of the books mentioned on this blog from Amazon.