Bookshop.org now sells e -books Wireless

In the five For years of its launch, Bookshop.org I completely collected the following follow -up. Online retail shares share their sales revenues with libraries throughout the United States, and has become a popular destination for online customers who prefer to keep local library libraries from sending money to senior retailers like Amazon. To date, the library has found success by selling material books. Today, libraries expand their efforts in the digital field.

Bookshop.org officially sells e -books now. Or, as the company will put them, libraries now enable local libraries to sell these e -books themselves through their market. The company launched the official e -book platform today, with the application (on Android and iOS) for shopping and reading digital books.

Library libraries can use the basic system to sell e -books directly to customers, and when they sell, the store gets all the money. Customers can also browse all e -books for sale on the website, then choose the library you support with their purchase. Also in this case, the chosen library gets all the money. (If the customer does not choose a store to support it, the libraries put a large part of the profits in a sharing group that is distributed among independent stores, but it keeps the rest to finance its operation.)

Bookshop Andy Hunter CEO sees a burning need for a better way to buy e -books.

“It is crazy that libraries cannot sell e -books to their customers at the present time,” says Hunter. He says he wants to continue this program’s task Support local librariesBut he also hopes this step will help move Amazon to the wedge as well.

“I know many people who love a local library library, support them in every other way, but when they need an electronic book, they have to go to Amazon to buy this e -book even if they love and support their local library and have moral concerns about Amazon. We want to change that.”

library It was launched in January 2020Just weeks before the world was closed due to the Covid-19s. Material book stores, such as many IRL retailers, faced an existential threat when large audiences of people themselves closed at home. Many stores were already struggling against Goliaths of Amazon, Walmart and TARGET a long time before the bond restrictions More purchases connected. Libraries just fell in time to provide some crutch for troubled library libraries and provide an alternative to transfer more money to Amazon’s Maw.

Perhaps he had not saved every library or dropped any electronic trade empires, but libraries were good – and they have proven popularity among readers who are eager to support independent stores. At the time of writing this report, libraries say they raised more than $ 35 million for local libraries libraries.

“Everyone wants to diversify the scene,” says Hunter. “Whether you like Amazon or not, everyone understands that it is a healthier market for books when you have a full range of players who sell and compete with each other.”