So if instead of funding selfie missions to near space you want to support ethical book shopping we can recommend the following:
Your Local Bookshop (here are some of our favourites):
Bookmongers
Round table books
Bookseller Crow
Beckenham Books
and not local but inspired the picture above: Highstreet Books and Records
Please message if you’d like to add more!
BookShop.org or Hive Books where you can nominate a local bookshop to get a cut of the sales of books (although it’s less than if you buy them in person).
If you prefer audiobooks you can use this link to sign up to Libro.fm (and get a free credit) – the advantage over it’s big yellow smiley megacorp competitor is that you get a copy of every book as a downloadable DRM free file. Plus you can nominate a local bookshop to get their suggestions and get a cut of your sales.
If you own a kindle you can jailbreak it using this guide which opens it up to read ebooks from other sources or load your own libraries onto the device.
If you want to manage your ebook collection you can use Calibre. If you’re concerned about big yellow smiley megacorps deleting copies of 1984 from your collection there are plugins that can help with that too.