Bookshop.org, a good choice for Amazon for buying online books, has entered the E-Book game. The company announced today that Open your own electronic bookstore Along with a fit for Android, iOS and the web
For those who do not know the Bookshop.org launched in 2020, it is a place for local bookstores and pop bookstores to easily sell online books. Site for users to choose stores in their area, which can give their own advice and items through a bookstore. When users order books about Bookshop.org, their local bookstore will be profitable. The company says that the company has raised $ 35 million to the present for local bookstores.
Bookshop.org said Verge The launch of e-books is necessary for bookstores to keep up with time. The new digital shop is launched with a title of about one million and agreement with the local bookstore will remain the same. -They will receive about 30 percent of the price. When selling books through their stories When customers in Bookshop.org do not choose a specific book shop to support the company, will distribute all the profits across the store and make themselves a little cut. The company hopes that the celling points are especially convinced people to choose the shop above Amazon.
Although the physical book is still more popular than e-books. The study found that the E-Book reader Tend to read more on average–
Andy Hunter CEO of Bookshop.org states that E-Books is still not popular because of the most innovative legs, with the Amazon's handwriting in the Kindle market, the company has the same meaning to E-Books, accounting for 75%. Of the people who have the most markets that need E-Books. Just buy Kindle and where the book comes, then the Amazon's secondary issue has just released a new version of the Kindle, including One with color screen For the first time, other companies have created e-reader before, but don't stand with Amazon.
The rule is a problem for two reasons: similar to Apple Kindle's iPhone, allowing users to buy electronic books from Amazon stores and read them in Kindle and Amazon. There is an agreement with the publishers at the book in Kindle. Compared to other versions of the sale, both of these points inhibit competitions from stores and alternatives, making it difficult to support models such as Bookshop.org. If you own Kindle, you buy from Amazon stores. Better price for any books or bonuses, so they don't have much to attract people away from Kindle.
To increase the insult of the injury. Hunter told Gizono that because the apple takes 30% to reduce the purchase of the Bookshop.org app, it is not able to sell e-books via iOS Reader app. Must buy books via the website and open it in the app
Hunter hopes that the first step in the release of Amazon's control is asking the small book on the Bookshop.org on Kindle so that the readers can support the local. If it says that he does not hope that the lawyer will step in and try to control hands through legal action. When consumers buy hardware parts such as Kindle, they say they should be able to download what they choose.
Anyone who follows the case against monopolies in the United States knows that they are unbelievably slow. All the technology giants have fought for the case for many years. With a small change of training, the owner of the iPhone in the United States is not able to download alternative apps, for example, although it is now a law of European countries.
Hunter said that he hoped that his company would be able to create his own E-Rder in the end, which people can read electronic books from the bookstore of the bookstore. But it will not come soon. That should make it challenge for the digital store of the company to be successful. Most electronic readers in Amazon's ecosystems are effectively closed the bookstore.
Another possible way, this may allow E-Books to transfer so that people in Amazon's ecosystems can go freely with their collection. But it should not happen soon. For now, at least Bookshop.org hope that the support of local bookstores will be enough to convince people to buy products from the store, despite having limitations.