Revolutions Bookshop

Screw the AI; love the human creators.
The hard work of authors we work with is not an "AI input."

It is not "unique repurposable data" to be fed into ChatGPT to regurgitate.

Together, we are asking fellow booksellers across the country to join us in taking a stand against "AI-generated" books.

As booksellers, we reject the assumption made by book publishers like Harper Collins that we would willingly play a part in what they have envisioned as the "AI-powered" future of our industry. Instead, we recognize the power we wield in refusing to do so. In solidarity with authors and the countless other real human beings responsible for bringing books to life, we refuse to knowingly promote "AI" works or stock "AI-generated" books on our shelves.

𝗜𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 "𝗔𝗜", 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁.

🔗 Find the full open letter which contains our pledge against promoting "AI books" our links.

If you're a bookseller who brings that "f**k AI" energy into your work – regardless if you're a bookstore owner, or you just signed on for a seasonal position at your local Large Regional Chain Bookstore™️– we ask you to consider signing on.
 
🖋️ Current signatories include:
Always Here Bookstore
Second Shapes Bookstore
Passages Bookshop
Floating World Comics
Books with Pictures
Midslumber Media
Lost Avenue Books
Wallace Books
Burnside Rare Books
David Morrison Books
Revolutions Bookshop
Grand Gesture Books
Arches Bookhouse
Selected Stories Bookstore
Vintage Books
Field Day Books & Bottles
Backstory Books and Yarn
Belmont Books
Honeyed Words

Is your favorite bookstore willing to take a stand against AI books? Tag them below.

Please join us tonight for what is sure to be a great conversation. Books will be available from the author.

Join Author Kristian Williams in a discussion of his new book Policing the Progressive City. Learn about the history of “Law & Order” as shaped by business interests in Portland and how Enhanced Service Districts proposed for St. Johns by the could impact you and your neighbors. Please come out and join us.

Join Author Kristian Williams in a discussion of his new book Policing the Progressive City. Learn about the history of “Law & Order” as shaped by business interests in Portland and how Enhanced Service Districts proposed for St. Johns could impact you and your neighbors.

We are closed today, but will be hosting a great music event tonight! Come out with some canned goods for and catch some great tunes.

What a wonderful weekend! We want to thank Comrade and Comrad Kent Ford and for joinng in a powerful discussion Friday, and for organizing the awesome book crawl. Also A huge thank you to everyone that came out and supported us and their local Indie Bookshop! !

We're excited to be celebrating today, so we'll be opening at 10:00 a.m.! And don't forget that it's the 2nd annual N/NE Portland book crawl this weekend.

Please join us this Friday for a special conversation between former Portland Kent Ford and former member , with special guest . This is sure to be awesome.

Please join us next Thursday, 4/23 for this special Letters to Prisoners session.

So great that these as****es get to take over downtown St. John's and in front of our shop every time this year. They seem like such upstanding adults riding on the sidewalks and filling the shop with carbon monoxide. Hey, we also ourselves are bike riders, but these pricks f**king suck.

Should be fun. Tag a friend to enter to win tix!