Bibliophile boycott
A mass boycott of Amazon-owned AbeBooks began this month.
Together more than 580 book dealers across 27 countries temporarily withdrew nearly 3.8m books from the site in protest at Abe’s decision to pull out of the Czech Republic, Hungary, South Korea and Russia. The Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association (ABA) had already scrapped its sponsorship deal with the online book portal for its flagship summer fair on the grounds that it was “not a suitable sponsor for us at this time.”