Bookshop.org

[Jobi1]

New service launching today in the UK (having been operating in America since the start of the year) – https://uk.bookshop.org/

Gives a decent chunk of sales (30% of cover price, I believe) to your local indie bookshop of choice. Another convenient alternative to lining Bezos's pockets during this next lockdown...

[Sam]

It looks great. I wish that either they could sell Kindle ebooks (I mean, obviously I understand why they can't) or that I could read their ebook files on my Kindle. If that were possible I'd be opening an account.

[Jobi1]

I made a conscious effort to de-Amazon earlier this year, and the Kindle is one of the things that is quite difficult to do away with. My Kindle is absolutely ancient anyway though, so I decided this would be a good opportunity to buy a non-Amazon tablet, which now opens up buying eBooks from different sources (I use Hive, which also gives a cut to an indie bookshop of your choosing, and ebooks.com).

[Incandenza]

It looks great. I wish that either they could sell Kindle ebooks (I mean, obviously I understand why they can't) or that I could read their ebook files on my Kindle. If that were possible I'd be opening an account.

Do they sell EPUB files rather than MOBI? Calibre is a very handy program for converting ebook files.

Glad to see that it's epxanded to the UK, and that it's gotten a lot of attention. Saw a few stories about it this week. I found a new indie bookstore in my hometown that I wouldn't have known about otherwise thanks to them.

[Various Artist]

It's a cracking idea. Was disappointed to find my nearest – and very good – little independent isn't on there (yet), alas.

[Jon]

Yes, great idea although, like Jobi, I've been using Hive for many years which seems to do the same thing. Most of the Christmas presents I buy tend to be books so this comes at a perfect time of the year.

[Jobi1]

There's also indiebookshops.com who list and highlight indies for those who want to bypass any of these services and find indies to support directly.

[Sam]

Do they sell EPUB files rather than MOBI? Calibre is a very handy program for converting ebook files.

Glad to see that it's epxanded to the UK, and that it's gotten a lot of attention. Saw a few stories about it this week. I found a new indie bookstore in my hometown that I wouldn't have known about otherwise thanks to them.

Thanks for the tip.

Bizarrely I now find they do not in fact sell ebooks yet. Which means I must have created a false memory because I could swear I checked last week on the UK site and that they did. I must have got it confused with the US site (which does sell ebooks), but I was sure I'd been careful to check I was on the UK one.

[Hot Pepsi]

I’m stuck with Amazon because of Audible.