Independent bookstores can also preorder your books! They won’t do sneaky things to try to undercut far less-powerful competitors! It may cost a little more, but your money is going into your community and not to people who are already rich.
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It’s worth mentioning that Bookshop.org was specifically created to help indies—you can buy online, choose an indie to support, and the store gets a huge percentage of the sale. Even if you don’t have an indie in your area, Bookshop supports bookstores!
apr 24, 2025, 12:21 am • 314 144 • view
Consider choosing Octavia’s Bookshelf which recently converted its bookstore to a donation site for basics to support ppl whose homes were lost to the firestorm in Altadena, CA. It’s a small independently owned bookstore that supports its local community through thick & thin.
apr 24, 2025, 4:04 am • 9 1 • view
bookshop.org/shop/Octavia.... Yes!
apr 24, 2025, 8:11 am • 5 2 • view
This is so great! My local bookstore is often out of popular titles so this will be a great 2nd option.
apr 24, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
📌 bookshop.org
apr 24, 2025, 3:11 am • 0 0 • view
i was about to say “i hope they have e books” AND THEY DO!!
apr 24, 2025, 12:32 am • 25 4 • view
The employees actually know about books/authors and can help you spend wisely by steering you toward books you will likely enjoy based on your reading history. I see supporting the indies as a patriotic act now and will NEVER buy another book from Amazon. @powells.bsky.social gets my money!
apr 24, 2025, 2:22 am • 4 0 • view
I called over 100 indie bookstores and none of them will carry my book because it's considered a "textbook" (academic publisher). It's very frustrating.
apr 24, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Speaking as a indie bookstore owner (and once also a Routledge author!) it is indeed very frustrating, but it is difficult for us to stock such books because they are usually offered to us at such a small discount (compared to trade books) that we would basically lose money to sell them.
apr 24, 2025, 9:09 pm • 1 0 • view