Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. By Alexandra Alter When Andy Hunter ...
Israeli police have confiscated books and arrested Palestinian booksellers following a raid on two famous East Jerusalem bookshops. The raid on The Educational Bookshops happened on Sunday and ...
Indie bookstore backer Bookshop.org launched an e-book platform on Tuesday, making it easier for readers to buy e-books without padding Jeff Bezos’ pockets. For years, Amazon’s chokehold and ...
Until now, Bookshop has found success through the sale of physical books. Today, Bookshop is expanding its efforts into the digital realm. Bookshop.org officially sells ebooks now. Or, as the ...
Amazon accounts for more than 80% of all online book sales, according to market research firm IBISWorld. Not to mention it owns Kindle, a wildly popular format for e-reading. Bookshop.org is ready ...
Luke Sherlock’s bookshop specialises ... Treasures (Frances Lincoln), which will be published in hardback on 20th March 2025. Featuring illustrations by Ioana Pioaru, the book brims with stories ...
The platform, which supports local bookstores and independent retailers, will now offer digital books as well as print editions Denise Truscello/Getty; Andrew Toth/Getty Bookshop.org is expanding ...
Bookshop.org founder and CEO Andy Hunter joked that the e-books question has been the bane of his business’ social media manager’s existence for a while now. “Every day she has people ask ...
The owners of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop, Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmad Muna, were arrested on 9th February 2025, while dozens of books were confiscated from their store, according to ...
What about that 1 percent of the book market that Bookshop was reclaiming from Amazon? Hunter knew that number was simultaneously impressive and tiny. Independent bookstores sold about 10 to 15 ...
E-books sell by the million on platforms like Amazon's Kindle or Apple Books. But independent bookstores have had a difficult time competing for those sales–something the site Bookshop.org wants ...