Move over Amazon: Bookshop.Org offers a way buy books online while supporting local bookstores
“If you are buying a book on Amazon, you are directly undermining your local small businesses and your local, small, independent book store.”
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San Antonio – Buying a book through Amazon may be cheap, but it does not support local, independent bookstores in San Antonio. That is where Bookshop.Org comes in, which offers a new way to buy a book that is just as easy as one-click shopping on Amazon, but sends money to local book stores all around the country.
“[Amazon is] able to offer books at such a competitively low price that they are undermining the publisher, the author, the local, independent book store and the local, independent book seller. So it is really unsustainable, and I would argue completely cannibalizing way to buy a book.”