Why I Added Bookshop Links to My Website in Canada
“Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.” — John Updike What Is Bookshop? Bookshop.org is an online bookstore that partners with independent bookstores in the United States and the United Kingdom. You can even pick your favourite local bookstore to support through their site while you are shopping from home. Instead of functioning like a typical online retailer, part of its model is designed to support indie bookshops through online sales. Over the past few years, it has become increasingly popular with readers who want another option for buying books online while still supporting independent bookstores and when I saw people talking about it in the forums, I decided to check it out. Why I Started Using It as a Canadian Site Even though we are in Canada, and Canadian bookstores are not included, our traffic and customers are all over the world. But it turns out since our books are distributed through IngramSpark, many of th...
