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In some ways, Amazon’s Kindle devices reign supreme amongst e-readers on account of their affordability and user-friendly design. Whereas Amazon dominates a good portion of online book sales within the US, this new Kindle alternative goals to vary that whereas supporting native bookstores.

Bookshop.org is a brand new on-line platform that permits customers to purchase and browse e-books whereas supporting native bookstores. The app is out there on iOS and Android and may also be accessed from the net. Its CEO and founder, Andy Hunter, says the app was impressed by the necessity to assist native bookstores within the digital age.

“Proper now, regardless of how a lot you’re keen on your native bookstore, if you wish to learn an e-book, you must go to Amazon or one other alternate platform and you’ll’t assist your native bookstore,” Hunter mentioned, chatting with USA Today. “E-books are an essential income stream for publishers and authors and so they may very well be for impartial bookstores.”

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Bookshop.org does not assist Kindles

Readers can solely apply it to iOS and Android gadgets

Bookshop.org lets customers choose their native bookstore to buy ebooks from on-line, and many of the earnings go to the bookstore. You will discover out which native bookstores are on the service by visiting Bookshop.org’s store locator. Nevertheless, many keen customers instantly identified the shortage of assist for e-readers like the Kindle due to a DRM difficulty. Bookshop.org is engaged on including assist for Kobo gadgets later this yr.

“Attributable to Amazon’s proprietary digital rights administration software program (DRM) and publishers’ DRM necessities, it’s not presently attainable to purchase ebooks from Bookshop.org or native bookstores and browse them in your Kindle,” Bookshop.org’s FAQ reads.

Kindle followers on Reddit shortly identified that this app shall be troublesome to make use of for customers who battle to learn on gadgets with out an E Ink show like Kindle and Kobo gadgets have. “That is lifeless for anybody who can’t learn on [a] telephone or pill,” one Reddit user mentioned.

In the event you’re comfy studying in your telephone or pill, then Bookshop.org seems to be a stable Kindle various to discover, significantly in case you want to assist a neighborhood bookstore. It presents over 1,000,000 titles from main publishers, and your studying progress syncs seamlessly throughout all of your gadgets. The Bookshop.org app is presently accessible on each the App Retailer and Google Play Retailer. On the time of writing, Bookshop.org has raised over $35 million for native bookstores.

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