“It is ridiculous to say “Amazon does not care for books, it cares for profits so the only people who advocate for books and neutrality are librarians. Librarians are the only ones who will recommend books to the young readers of tomorrow. ”

Amazon have done a miraculous job in making books available and at incredible value . Never has ‘the long tail’ of book backlist been so well served and accessible (and don’t claim that libraries do it)

As for working for profit – we all work to get paid if we can – even members of the library profession . For 99.9% of people in any commercial operation – getting paid is as near as they get to the profits of the company.

The suggestion that ‘only librarians will recommend books to children’ is just insulting to parents, to teachers, to grandparents – even to booksellers – to almost everybody.

Librarians have a fanciful idea of their own importance