Bookshop.org...helping local bookshops to challenge Amazon

[KateESal]

Bookshop.org launched in the US earlier this year and is just about to launch in the UK.

Have any stateside Litopians tried it yet?

'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon

Bookshop.org, which launched in the US earlier this year, has accelerated UK plans and goes online this week in partnership with more than 130 shops

www.theguardian.com

 

[Emily]

Sounds completely brilliant. I'll hold out on my book-buying until next week!

 

[Paul Whybrow]

A riposte to the idea: Rather a hundred little ships.

 

[KateESal]

I believe bookshop.org is a similar idea to HIVE, but a higher percentage of the cover price goes to the seller.

 

[Hannah F]

Must find out if my most local bookshop is involved.

 

[Nikky Lee]

Hmm, I wonder if AU/NZ bookshops can jump onboard. Amazon often massively price gouges AU buyers for paperbacks. Case in point here, taken from a FB thread about it from a understandably unhappy author. They can't do anything to change the paperback pricing as it's set by a third-party retailer and Amazon won't lift a finger to help.

 

[CageSage]

Hmm, I wonder if AU/NZ bookshops can jump onboard. Amazon often massively price gouges AU buyers for paperbacks. Case in point here, taken from a FB thread about it from a understandably unhappy author. They can't do anything to change the paperback pricing as it's set by a third-party retailer and Amazon won't lift a finger to help.

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This problem comes up a lot for Aussies, too.
It's not the 'zon that hikes the prices, it's the distributor (and postage).
The only way I know of to fix the problem is to have the pb pod done by a company that has a presence in Aus or NZ. That basically means IngramSpark, the widest distributor of them all. I used them for Diaballein, in the US at USD7.99, and in Aus at AUD12.64 (and there are always more than one option for buying from other sellers, ie Book Depository, despatched from UK). I don't know if NZ has their own 'zon table?
Unless there are other options? Because this bookshop option isn't down under. Yet.