There’s an unlucky catch to the newest Kindle different

In some ways, Amazon’s Kindle devices reign supreme amongst e-readers because 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 alter 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 accessible on iOS and Android and will also be accessed from the online. Its CEO and founder, Andy Hunter, says the app was impressed by the necessity to help native bookstores within the digital age.

“Proper now, irrespective of how a lot you’re keen on your native bookstore, if you wish to learn an e-book, you must go to Amazon or one other alternate platform and you may’t help your native bookstore,” Hunter stated, chatting with USA Today. “E-books are an essential income stream for publishers and authors and so they may very well be for impartial bookstores.”

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Bookshop.org does not help 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. Yow will discover out which native bookstores are on the service by visiting Bookshop.org’s store locator. Nevertheless, many keen customers instantly identified the dearth of help for e-readers like the Kindle due to a DRM situation. Bookshop.org is engaged on including help for Kobo units later this yr.

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

Kindle followers on Reddit rapidly identified that this app will likely be tough to make use of for customers who wrestle 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] cellphone or pill,” one Reddit user stated.

When you’re comfy studying in your cellphone or pill, then Bookshop.org seems to be a strong Kindle different to discover, notably in the event you want to help a neighborhood bookstore. It presents over one million titles from main publishers, and your studying progress syncs seamlessly throughout all of your units. The Bookshop.org app is presently out there 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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