There’s an unlucky catch to the newest Kindle different

In some ways, Amazon’s Kindle devices reign supreme amongst e-readers as a result of their affordability and user-friendly design. Whereas Amazon dominates a good portion of online book sales within the US, this new Kindle alternative goals to vary that whereas supporting native bookstores.

Bookshop.org is a brand new on-line platform that permits customers to purchase and browse e-books whereas supporting native bookstores. The app is offered on iOS and Android and may also be accessed from the online. Its CEO and founder, Andy Hunter, says the app was impressed by the necessity to assist native bookstores within the digital age.

“Proper now, regardless of how a lot you like your native bookstore, if you wish to learn an e-book, you need to go to Amazon or one other alternate platform and you’ll’t assist your native bookstore,” Hunter mentioned, chatting with USA Today. “E-books are an vital income stream for publishers and authors they usually could possibly be for unbiased bookstores.”

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Bookshop.org does not assist Kindles

Readers can solely apply it to iOS and Android units

Bookshop.org lets customers choose their native bookstore to buy ebooks from on-line, and many of the income go to the bookstore. You will discover out which native bookstores are on the service by visiting Bookshop.org’s store locator. Nevertheless, many keen customers instantly identified the shortage of assist for e-readers like the Kindle due to a DRM problem. Bookshop.org is engaged on including assist for Kobo units later this yr.

“Resulting from Amazon’s proprietary digital rights administration software program (DRM) and publishers’ DRM necessities, it’s not at the moment potential to purchase ebooks from Bookshop.org or native bookstores and browse them in your Kindle,” Bookshop.org’s FAQ reads.

Kindle followers on Reddit shortly identified that this app can be tough to make use of for customers who battle to learn on units with out an E Ink show like Kindle and Kobo units have. “That is lifeless for anybody who can’t learn on [a] telephone or pill,” one Reddit user mentioned.

If you happen to’re comfy studying in your telephone or pill, then Bookshop.org seems to be a stable Kindle different to discover, notably in the event you want to assist an area bookstore. It presents over 1,000,000 titles from main publishers, and your studying progress syncs seamlessly throughout all of your units. The Bookshop.org app is at the moment accessible on each the App Retailer and Google Play Retailer. On the time of writing, Bookshop.org has raised over $35 million for native bookstores.

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