Daily News Item 2026-02-04 13:05

A press release from Bookshop.org has announced a new partnership with Draft2Digital which will allow hundreds of thousands of self-published e-books to be sold through the Amazon alternative’s website. Bookshop.org began selling e-books in 2025, generating over $9.5 million in revenue for its independent bookstore partners, with over 200,000 e-book sales transacted through the Bookshop.org app; the new collaboration will add “a new, sustainable revenue stream” as the catalogue of Draft2Digital titles become available through Bookshop.org. Bookshop.org founder and CEO Andy Hunter celebrated the collaboration: “Partnering with Draft2Digital means self-published authors, an essential and rapidly growing part of the publishing landscape, can now work with indie bookstores, and they can support each other."