Independent bookstores can now reduce the e -book market. Today Bookshop.org announced that it added eBook to the website. Like the real book, online retailers encourage shoppers to specify a local bookstore when paying, then send some of the purchase price to the store. Bookshop.org has spread more than $ 35 million in Indie bookstores since it started selling physical volume in 2020.
During the recent chat, Andy Hunter CEO said that hundreds of stores recognized Bookshop.org as the ability to maintain their business through shutdown by Pandemic. Now, through the additional EBOOK sales, the store has one more revenue source, and shoppers will have another way to support neighboring stores. “‘Come to us for a book and come to us and go to Amazon when you need eBook.” “
This site will provide more than 3 million eBooks from all major publishers, and the entire profit of sales will go to the customer’s chosen store. If the user does not specify the store, the profit will be partially the pool of all the bookstores participating, and the rest returns to Bookshop.org. The company will also make money from the publisher ads on the website. Since the price of e -book is set by the publisher, the title is the same as Amazon, Kobo, Google Books or anywhere else.
Bookshop.org introduces a new reader app for iOS and Android devices in addition to the new category. Through the app, the reader allows the reader to explore the listed books, search for ebook catalogs, read previews, and add books to the wish list. Like other e -book sellers, you have to head from the browser to Bookshop.org for purchasing. You can avoid the steep in -app billing commission of Apple and Google. (But Bookshop.org’s website in Tangential Note now accept Google and Apple Pay.)
Reading a book in an app is familiar to people using tablets or smartphones Ereader apps, providing highlights, tin, types and fonts and text searches. In addition to the Swipeable page, you can also set the text to the vertical scroll mode, which is an option that you have not seen in other EREADER apps.
Perhaps the most interesting feature is the quote sharing. When I talked to Hunter, he pointed out that when people share their quotes in social media books, they often be done through the type of quotes typed with physical pages and the cover of the book. If you want to read that book, you need to find a little work to find it and buy it.
You can emphasize and share up to 300 texts of text elsewhere where you can share Facebook, X, Thread, Bluesky or General Web Links by quoting in the Bookshop.org app or browser leader. The generated link creates a format with a book with a book cover image. Anyone who clicks on the link moves to the web page with an estimate in the context above the button to buy a book. Hunter said the goal said, “The dialogue around the book feels like an indigenous part of the social web.”
As a person who invested in Ereaders, I asked if Bookshop.org eBook could be read in Kindles or Kobos. Hunter says his company is already studying compatibility with the KOBO device and has potentially talked with Amazon so that Kindles can display the titles purchased in Bookshop.org. The integration with KOBO can come early this year. Amazon cooperation will take longer.
With another upcoming feature, Indie BookSellers can use Bookshop.org’s technology to sell e -books directly on the bookstore’s own website. This partnership is not available at the time of launch, but must live in the spring of 2025.
Hunter told me about the initial investor stage in the print -only repetition of Bookshop.org. When potential investors found that they could not beat Amazon at prices or speeds, he laughed in the room. They thought no matter how much independent bookstores were, no one would be willing to pay or wait for the book longer.
Five years later, investors not only proved their mistakes, but also suggested that at least some of the company’s continuous beings may be patient to support several additional costs and bookstores. Now, using ebooks can now match Amazon at two prices. And even the largest electronic retailers can’t discount EBOOK, and delivery is appropriate, no matter where you buy it.
