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A UMass gradâs site is helping independent bookstores hold their own against Amazon âI was waiting for someone smarter and with more resources than me to do something.it never happened.â By Mark Shanahan Globe Staff,Updated February 4, 2021, 2:33 p.m. Email to a Friend Andy Hunter, who founded Bookshop.org, is seen in his office in Brooklyn, N.Y. He created the website to help save independent bookstores from Amazon which has been taking even larger percentages of book sales.Jennifer S. Altman Growing up in Winchester in the â70s and â80s, Andy Hunter had a complicated home life â he and his brothers were raised by a single mother who struggled with mental illness. Books ....