Local Bookstores Have A New Weapon In The Fight With Amazon
In the book industry, Amazon is Goliath, the giant who overshadows everyone else. But there’s a new David on the scene, Bookshop.org.
It doesn’t expect to topple the giant, but it has launched a weapon that could make Amazon’s shadow a little smaller, and help local bookstores fight back.
Bookshop.org, a website that went live at the end of January and is still in beta mode, is designed to be an alternative to Amazon, and to generate income for independent bookstores. And, perhaps more importantly, it seeks to give book reviewers, bloggers and publications who rely on affiliate income from “Buy now” links to Amazon a different option.
Profit from books sold through Bookshop will be split three ways, with 10% of the sale price going into a pool that will be divided among participating bookstores, 10% going to the publication that triggered the sale by linking to Bookshop.org, and 10% going to Bookshop.org to support its operations.
y’all, Bookshop is amazing. i got an email about them from my local indie store, and they’re so excited about it. please oh please use this place instead of Amazon!!
with every purchase, they tell you how much you’re putting toward independent booksellers, which is fun and cute:
it’s also amazing for authors! i’ve been asked a couple times about the best way to support my books. this site is now the answer. it reports sales figures to the NYT and Bookscan, a type of tracking that helps authors hit bestseller lists. and even better, authors can set up affiliate pages, and if you buy through those pages, we get an additional 10 percent of each sale on top of royalties. this is a massive deal!!!
for reference, many royalty rates are in the 6-8 percent range. so if you buy through Bookshop author affiliate pages, authors get more than twice as much from sales of their books, with no additional cost to you.
the site is still in beta, but it also has a fun interface where you can make book lists for favorites or recommendations, sort of like goodreads (except better, because goodreads is owned by amazon).
this is my Bookshop page. if you ever buy one of my books, i pray u will do it from this site! (or from your local indie :D)
my top surgery date is set for early february but im p much living paycheck to paycheck rn and im worried about being able to keep myself afloat while in recovery. i've been picking up as many shifts as i can and i've been selling a lot of my stuff, i'm sorry to beg again but if anyone wanted to help me out that would help me immensely, my venmo/cashapp are @/$westph
Let’s go over what has happened to the Jewish community during Hanukkah this year.
Let’s go over what has happened to the Jewish community during Hanukkah this year.
Panel two:
On the first night of Hanukkah
- The only anne frank memorial in the usa was vandalized was swastikas and hate speech
- 4 men took over the pa system on a belgium train and threatened to blow up the vehicle unless the jewish passengers stepped off.
- In ukraine, a man filmed himself toppling down a public menorah while shouting antisemitic slurs
- A synagogue in iowa was vandalized in broad daylight
- While shopping for hanukkah cookies, a man screamed antisemitic slurs at an elderly jewish woman
Panel three:
On the second night of Hanukkah
- A swastika image and a racial slur were found drawn in chalk outside amherst regional high school
- In Barcelona, graffiti blaming the corona virus on jewish people was found
- A public menorah outside of the alameda city hall was found shattered (california)
- Newly elected laconia state representative dawn johnson shared a racist and antisemitic meme on social media from a neo-nazi website
Panel four:
On the third night of Hanukkah
- At a menorah lighting ceremony in kentucky, a driver shouted antisemitic slurs at attendees and ran over a jewish man
(this is the fourth antisemitic incident that has happened at the university of kentucky's chabad jewish center this year)
Panel five:
On the fourth night of Hanukkah
- A man in Florida chanted “| am going to ----ing kill you, ----ing jews” at jewish families. It was later discovered that he had knives on him
Panel 6:
On the fifth night of Hanukkah
- A jewish high school's website was hacked to display holocaust imagery, swastikas and nazi propaganda. Students received horrible antisemitic emails and text messages. Private information including credit card numbers, home addresses and more have been leaked
Panel 7:
On the sixth night of Hanukkah
- Horrific antisemitic graffiti was found in Queens, New York this morning
There are still two more nights left of Hanukkah and all of these incidents have happened already. Keep in mind that this is not an exhaustive list. There are other antisemitic incidents that have happened.]
Saskatchewan is not the only province with “starlight tours” on record either. Vancouver police have done the same, dropping people off on Kitsilano Beach. Winnipeg police were found to have killed at least 76 people this way from a study back in 2010.
Let’s also not forget that RCMP have murdered minors this way, too, not just grown adults.
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