If you’re looking to get your books somewhere other than Amazon, then here’s a whole host of independent booksellers worth supporting.
Each week on the Film Stories site, we’ve been championing children’s books that have been struggling to get the attention they deserve elsewhere. We’re back to normal on that next week, but wanted to salute the many independent booksellers still battling for business during the numerous lockdowns.
Books are getting a lot of us through the unrelenting pandemic rollercoaster. But writers and publishers are in a precarious position: without in-person marketing events, it’s ever more challenging for new or less-known names to cut through. That puts pressure on booksellers, too. We’ve been championing some great reads lately, and now it’s time to turn the spotlight on the people who get them to us.
Lots of people use Amazon to get their books, for lots of good reasons. Others have switched to Hive, which functions in much the same way but splits proceeds with a local independent seller of your choice. And now there’s the indie hub Bookshop.org in the UK, which provides an online outlet for a lot of indies who might not have the investment or manpower to run their own online store. Sometimes, though, you want to support a precious community resource one-to-one. So we asked Twitter’s avid readers which indies they’re getting their books from – while helping to keep the post-pandemic doors open.
Most are in the UK and Ireland, but we got a cluster of enthusiastic Australian recommendations (two of which ship globally), so we threw them in too. Many are also children’s book specialists, while some include all ages.
