4.20.26
Bookshop.org’s sales grew by fifty-five percent last year, reports Publishers Weekly. Six years since its inception, the online bookseller, which offers a revenue stream to independent bookstores and gives readers an alternative to Amazon in the process, continues to grow due to increased sales for romance books, new e-book sales, and a Spotify partnership, started in February of this year, that allows users to buy print books in the app through Bookshop. “If I told you in 2019 that there was going to be a massive resurgence of indie bookstores after twenty years of decline, nobody would have believed me,” says Andy Hunter, Bookshop’s CEO.