Massive Bookshop

Massive Bookshop is great and you should think about checking them out, for all your revlit needs.

While we had to make some changes to avoid racking up debt, we are still here and selling books at a sustainable rate. More importantly, we're still having fun; and we're bailing people out of jail.

Thanks to everyone who has supported this project in 2025 and beyond!

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B2P If you want to send books to a friend, comrade, or pen pal currently incarcerated in a U.S. jail or prison, you can do so via the Massive Bookshop. First, confirm that the facility where you're sendin...

We also issued $17,265.38 in discounts to customers ordering books for their incarcerated pen pals. To learn more about that service and to take advantage of it, you can check out our B2P PAGE here: massivebookshop.com/pages/b2p 3/

OUR FRIENDS We set up the Massive Bookshop to make it relatively easy for us to support community projects and organizing efforts where we and our customers live. By keeping our overhead low, we can supply you wi...

We donated $12,115 to bail funds, prisoner support groups, and other friends including Decarcerate Western Mass, Sameer Project, @oaklandabosol.bsky.social, house of gg, and Belly Zine. A sortable table of all donations we've made since we started is here: massivebookshop.com/pages/our-fr... 2/

OUR YEAR-END REPORT: In 2025, we received 376 tips (thank you!) totaling $2,555.37, and we made a net profit of $3,752.80 on revenue of $99,650.57.

This was actually our first year of making a profit. We donated way more than we made in profit, though, which is the point. 1/

Are we worried about losing money? No. Like every other bookseller, we should do better in the fourth quarter as the holiday season picks up. We are always improving and our profit margin will improve, too.

Thank you for your continued interest and support.

Truly,

On the year we've generated $1,872.84 in profit on revenue of $74,610.33. That's a 2.5% profit margin, which isn't great, but it is about what the average "brick and mortar" bookstore generates.

We've donated 12% of that revenue, tho, so we're at (-$7,127.60) for the year. 🫤

B2P If you want to send books to a friend, comrade, or pen pal currently incarcerated in a U.S. jail or prison, you can do so via the Massive Bookshop. First, confirm that the facility where you're sendin...

This year we've also issued $16,883.15 in discounts to customers buying books for their incarcerated pen pals. All orders for incarcerated readers qualify for a 50% discount.

You can read about how best to take advantage of that service here 👉 massivebookshop.com/pages/b2p

OUR FRIENDS We set up the Massive Bookshop to make it relatively easy for us to support community projects and organizing efforts where we and our customers live. By keeping our overhead low, we can supply you wi...

Since 2020, we've donated $52,817.50 to bail funds, jail support and other rad orgs, and sent 9786 books to prison book programs.

You can see the full list of projects we've supported on OUR FRIENDS page here 👉 massivebookshop.com/pages/our-fr...

In the third quarter of 2025 we received 55 tips totaling $273.56 (thanks!) and we matched that total to donate $547.12 to our comrades at Decarcerate Western Mass. So far this year we've donated $9,000.44 to prisoners, bail funds, jail support, and The Sameer Project in Gaza, among others.

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women "This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

#OpEd: "We can’t bury the deeper, driving forces behind why this is happening. This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents — ICE, police officers, prison staff — have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies." Read the full story here. ⬇️

ICE Detainees in Louisiana on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions at Angola Prison In Louisiana, ICE detainees are on hunger strike to protest their conditions at the infamous Angola prison. According to the Southeast Dignity Not Detention Coalition and the National Immigration Proj...

ICE Detainees in Louisiana on Hunger Strike to Protest Conditions at Angola Prison

“[In] the cell block, the city block, and the classroom, abolition is both a philosophy and a strategy. As a way of thinking, abolition is an uncompromising refusal of the violent order of things. […] All of us or none, the abolitionist insists; this way toward freedom.”

ABOLITION Abolition, as the scholar-organizer Ruth Wilson Gilmore put it, demands that we change one thing--everything. From the insurgencies and agitation to end slavery in the nineteenth century to contempora...

Thanks to a real one, Dan Berger, for helping us revamp our ABOLITION section with a banger intro.

Are you a writer interested in helping us create more browsing sections? Reach out and tap in!

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[W4G] $1,300 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project July 22: New match! The wonderful people of Massive Bookshop have offered to match the next $1,300 in contributions!  (The $500 match from writer and professor Christina Sharpe has been met!) Today is...

The Sameer Project is urgently in need of funds to sustain life in Gaza. Please help us double our contribution TODAY by donating any amount to this fundraiser open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

[W4G] $1,300 Matching Campaign for The Sameer Project July 22: New match! The wonderful people of Massive Bookshop have offered to match the next $1,300 in contributions!  (The $500 match from writer and professor Christina Sharpe has been met!) Today is...

@massivebookshop.bsky.social is matching donations to the Sameer Project up to $1300. Can you join me in contributing to their campaign?

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Looks like “indie” presses are mad that B&N is turning off the steady drip of corporate waste that they’ve come to rely on to expand their lists. If you’re “indie,” why tie your fate to that of a corporate chain in the first place? 🤔

OUR MASSIVE INVENTORY Can't decide where to start? Here's a collection of every book currently stocked in our Massive Fulfillment Center in Greenfield, Mass. Because we'd rather donate our cash reserves to bail funds than ...

We are back from vacation and we're having a ⚡️FLASH SALE⚡️to get back on track with paying our bills. Through Sunday, June 22, take 50% off all books in our Massive inventory!

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Massive Bookshop is taking its first ever vacation. We are not (yet) dead. We are having fun.

“Normal” book selling activities will resume on or around June 9th.

Thanks!

OUR FRIENDS We set up the Massive Bookshop to make it relatively easy for us to support community projects and organizing efforts where we and our customers live. By keeping our overhead low, we can supply you wi...

You can see the full list of bail funds, jail support groups, political prisoners and others we’ve supported on our Friends page here: massivebookshop.com/pages/our-fr...

Massive Bookshop The bookstore that bails people out of jail.

I love seeing folks share Bookshop as the link to buy their books, but may I humbly suggest that if you want to order books online you consider @massivebookshop.bsky.social ? The wonderful bookstore that bails people out of jail (& sends free books to folks in prison!)
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In 4+ years of doing this, we’ve donated over $41k to bail funds and prisoner support groups.

That’s thousands of people who didn’t have to sleep in a cage, and many more getting community support, because some punks had fun selling books.

[W4G] [05/20/25] PRE-RELEASE Franklin, Kamau, Micah Herskind, Mariah Parker (eds): No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement Haymarket Books, paperback Publication Date: May 20, 2025 Publisher Marketing: A collection of essays from the Stop Cop City movement on the fight for police abolition and for a liveable planet for al...

!!!!!! you can pre-order No Cop City, No Cop World through @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's site and help fund the critical
Sameer Project!

link here: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

🚨Good deal + good deed opportunity from the bookstore that bails people out of jail

GFBtB WISH LIST Here's a running list from our friends at Great Falls Books through Bars of books that are often requested, but rarely donated to them. Add a title or two from the GFBtB wish list to your order, and w...

Yes! And we’re doing something for “indie bookstore day” too. All orders for our friendly local books-to-prisoners group are being matched by a generous donor up to $1k! massivebookshop.com/collections/...

Corrections work isn't among the top 10 most dangerous jobs in the US. But still, the median annual salary is higher than jobs that are much more deadly 🤔

This looks like a country that invests in mass incarceration WAY too much
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By My Prison’s Standards, the Bible Would Be a Banned Book Today, more than 50,000 books are banned in prison. At Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, the book ban is getting to be ridiculous.

"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."

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