Independent bookstores have been looking for ways to compete in the e-book space,” said Rachel Kanter, owner of Lovestruck Books in Harvard Square. The post Indie bookstores will soon be able to sell e-books to customers appeared first on Boston.

Independent bookstores can only sell what is on the physical shelves. Hardly any bookstore has a website where customers can place orders and have them shipped out. Digital books are easy to buy, but if you don't want to deal with Amazon,

Indie bookstores miss out on millions of e-book sales to big companies like Amazon. Bookshop.org's new platform could help them turn a new page.

The challenger brand to Amazon’s hegemony has big plans to build further, starting with a new e-book initiative. Andy Hunter decided something needed to be done about the endless rise of Amazon in 2018—the year that the e-commerce giant surpassed 50% of book sales in the U.