Bookshop.org: The independent online bookshop for small businesses Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Life You can support independent bookshops across the country by shopping on this new website By You Magazine - November 3, 2020 It’s been reported that the nation ‘rediscovered the pleasure of reading’ during the first lockdown of the year, with sales of books soaring as we all stayed home and got lost within their pages. But despite the surge, independent bookshops are, like so many other small businesses, struggling to stay afloat during these difficult times. Getty Images Enter Bookshop.org, a new initiative designed to support those stores and still keep your online shopping experience as easy and convenient as it would be with a huge retailer like Amazon. Founded by writer Andy Hunter of The Literary Hub, the website, which launched at the beginning of November, is will financially support small bookshops across the UK in one of two ways. If you want to find a specific local bookshop to support, you can find them on the store locator map and they’ll receive the full profit from your order. Otherwise, your order will contribute to an earnings pool that will be evenly distributed among the independent bookshops who are participating in the initiative. Bookshop.org With another period of lockdown ahead, physical bookshops will once again be forced to close as they are classed as non-essential. But unlike last time, Bookshop.org now offers the perfect place to show your solidarity with independent outlets and pick up the next must-reads for your shelf (or start your Christmas shopping now that you can’t head to the high street in person). In America, Bookshop.org has already been a huge success, with Metro revealing that it was selling around $1M worth of books a day back in June. Getty Images In a very short space of time, it’s already raised upwards of £22,000, and it’s hoped that this is only the beginning. ‘We hope that Bookshop.org can help strengthen the fragile ecosystem and margins around bookselling and keep local bookshops an integral part of our culture and communities,’ the website says. To place your order, head to Bookshop.org. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Everything we know about The Crown season 5 Aldi s exercise equipment is on sale with up to 50% off The best Halloween events for 2022 across the UK Popular in Life The You magazine team reveal their New Year s resolutions December 31, 2021 Susannah Taylor The TLC tools your body will love January 23, 2022 How to stop living in fear February 6, 2022 Susannah Taylor My pick of the fittest leggings February 27, 2022 Women’ s Prize for Fiction 2022 winner announced June 17, 2022 These BBC dramas are returning for a second series June 30, 2022 Susannah Taylor gives the lowdown on nature s little helper – CBD April 17, 2022 The baby names that are banned across the world April 27, 2022 The Queen has released her own emojis May 26, 2022 Sally Brompton horoscopes 27th June-3rd July 2022 June 26, 2022 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved