It is now possible to get independent book stores to obtain pieces from the e -book market. today, Bookshop.org I announced an addition E -books on its website. As with physical books, retail online retailers demand shoppers to appoint a local books store upon exit, then sends part of the purchase price to this store. Since I started selling material sizes in 2020, Bookshop.org has transferred more than $ 35 million to independent books sellers.
During a recent conversation, CEO Andy Hunter told me that hundreds of stores have been attributed to Bookshop.org their ability to remain in work through the closures caused by the epidemic. Now through sales of electronic books added, these stores will have another revenue streaming – and shoppers will have another way to support neighborhood stores. “It is not a good work strategy to say,” Come to us for your books, but when you need an electronic book, go to Amazon. “
The site will offer more than three million electronic books from each major publisher and the full profit of the sale goes to the client’s chosen store. If the user does not specify the store, the profits will partially direct to a gathering for all participating libraries and the rest will return to Bookshop.org. The company will also make money from the publisher ads on its website. Since the prices of e -books are determined by the publisher, the addresses will cost the same prices from Amazon, Kobo, Google Books or anywhere else.
In addition to the new category, Bookshop.org also introduces a new application for iOS and Android devices today. Through the application, readers can explore the coordinated lists of books, search the e -book catalog, read the inspections and add books to their list of wishes. You still need to go to Bookshop.org on a browser to make purchases-just as you do with other e-book sellers so that they can avoid acute billing commissions in Apple and Google. (Nevertheless, in Tangental Note, Bookshop.org now accepts Google and Apple Pay.)
Reading books on the app must feel familiar to anyone who uses a tablet or a smartphone, and provides outstanding points, annotations, gender modifications and line and searching for texts. In addition to scrolling pages, you can also set the text to an endless vertical scrolling mode, an option that I have not seen in other Ereader applications.
Perhaps the most interesting feature is a quotation sharing. While I was talking to Hunter, he pointed out that when people share quotes from books on social media, this is often through a written quote along with a picture taken from the physical page or the cover of the book. If you want to read this book, you will have to put a little work to find and buy it.
With the quotation in the Bookshop.org app or the browser reader, up to 300 letters of the text can be distinguished and shared on Facebook, X, Threads, Bluesky or anywhere else you can share regular Weblinks. The link created a coordinated post with the quote, along with the cover of the book cover. Anyone who clicks on the link will be transferred to a web page with a quotation in the context, on a button to buy the book. Hunter says the goal is to “hold talks about books that seem to be an original part of the social network.”
As a person being invested in Ereaders, I asked whether the Bookshop.org e -books would be readable on Kindles or Kobos. Hunter told me that his company is already working to compatible with KOBO devices, and it is also having conversations with Amazon to allow Kindles to display addresses purchased from Bookshop.org. Integration with Kobo can come early this year; The Amazon cooperation is likely to take longer.
Another upcoming feature of independent books can sell e -books directly from the library office website using Bookshop.org technology. This partnership will not be available at launch, but it must go directly in the spring of 2025.
Hunter told me a story from the initial investor stage of printed repetition only for Bookshop.org. When potential investors learned that Amazon could not overcome the price or speed, he laughed outside the room. They assumed that no one would be ready to pay more or wait for a longer period for a book, regardless of how well they believed in independent libraries.
After more than five years, these investors have not only proven wrong, as the company’s constant presence indicates that at least some people can avoid some additional dollars and some patience to support libraries-now with e-books, the Bandshop.org office can match Amazon at both price And speed, given that the largest number of electronic retail cannot deduct e -books and delivery, as it is regardless of where you buy it.
This article was originally appeared on Engadget on https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets