Because it launched in January 2020, Bookshop.org has been a well-liked place for readers to purchase books whereas supporting native bookstores. However whereas Libro.fm supplied a platform the place readers may purchase audiobooks whereas supporting native bookstores, there was no equal for ebooks. As of as we speak, that’s modified. Now you can purchase ebooks on Bookshop.org, and identical to with bodily books, your buy helps an area bookstore of your alternative.
You’ll be able to learn these ebooks in your browser or utilizing Bookshop.org’s iPhone or Android app. They presently have one million ebooks obtainable to buy, together with a range on sale for $3 or much less. Much more ebooks by self-published authors and small presses can be added quickly.
As Lea Bickerton, proprietor of the Tiny Bookstore, stated: “With our current political environment, I suspect there are going to be more people who want to pivot out of the Amazon ecosystem. There’s a window of opportunity to make this market competitive again.”
Andy Hunter, founding father of Bookshop.org, isn’t achieved but. He’s planning so as to add extra options to their e book choices, like a subscription possibility, and is even hoping to construct a substitute for Amazon-owned Goodreads.
For those who’d like to listen to extra from Andy Hunter, subscribe to E book Riot’s First Version podcast, the place he’ll be showing later this week.
To study extra about ebooks on Bookshop.org, take a look at their FAQs.
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