A look at Libro.fm, an indie audiobook company, and Bookshop.org, whose 10% affiliate share extends to its 3K+ partners, including NYT, Vox, and 560 bookstores
without forgetting the crucial role indie bookstores and their brilliant booksellers serve as members of local communities. http://read.medium.com/Yp4eKWN Angela Lashbrook / @lemonsand : I wrote about Bookshop and http://libro.fm/, two indie online book retailers that have seen enormous growth during quarantine. But it's not clear how long that growth will last https://onezero.medium.com/... OneZero / @ozm : The affiliate share @Bookshop_Org extends to its partners is 10% — more than double the 4.5% Amazon offers. http://read.medium.com/8DHhxIB @librofm : “If there's one silver lining from the pandemic—at least where our online lives are concerned—it's the emergence of viable small competitors to corporate giants that many of us have become accustomed to.” Thanks for the feature, @ozm 💪 http://onezero.medium.com/... @lemonsand Damon Beres / @dlberes : I love today's Microprocessing by @lemonsand—at a glance it may seem a bit different than usual, but it ultimately addresses the difficulty of reshaping one's online shopping habits, a quintessential Angela topic tackled with typical rigor and readability https://onezero.medium.com/... Bookshop / @bookshop_org : “Bookshop's active, human-created discovery offerings are stumbling into a field of gold to a reader without a clear idea of what they want to pick up next.” @lemonsand on the rise of http://bookshop.org/ and http://libro.fm/, today on @ozm: https://onezero.medium.com/... Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : “Suddenly, people are discovering new portals to online commerce that may change their digital habits for good.” @lemonsand https://onezero.medium.com/... See also Mediagazer
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@ozm
OneZero on x
http://libro.fm/ and http://bookshop.org/ appear well on their way to dominating the independent online bookselling game — without forgetting the crucial role indie bookstores and their brilliant booksellers serve as members of local communities. http://read.medium.com/Yp4eKWN
@lemonsand
Angela Lashbrook on x
I wrote about Bookshop and http://libro.fm/, two indie online book retailers that have seen enormous growth during quarantine. But it's not clear how long that growth will last https://onezero.medium.com/...
@ozm
OneZero on x
The affiliate share @Bookshop_Org extends to its partners is 10% — more than double the 4.5% Amazon offers. http://read.medium.com/8DHhxIB
@librofm
@librofm on x
“If there's one silver lining from the pandemic—at least where our online lives are concerned—it's the emergence of viable small competitors to corporate giants that many of us have become accustomed to.” Thanks for the feature, @ozm 💪 http://onezero.medium.com/... @lemonsand
@dlberes
Damon Beres on x
I love today's Microprocessing by @lemonsand—at a glance it may seem a bit different than usual, but it ultimately addresses the difficulty of reshaping one's online shopping habits, a quintessential Angela topic tackled with typical rigor and readability https://onezero.medium.c…
@bookshop_org
Bookshop on x
“Bookshop's active, human-created discovery offerings are stumbling into a field of gold to a reader without a clear idea of what they want to pick up next.” @lemonsand on the rise of http://bookshop.org/ and http://libro.fm/, today on @ozm: https://onezero.medium.com/...
@lmatsakis
Louise Matsakis on x
“Suddenly, people are discovering new portals to online commerce that may change their digital habits for good.” @lemonsand https://onezero.medium.com/...