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annabenedetti

like marbles on glass
Well, this is a day-brightener. :)

Apparently it's been here since January and I didn't know about it until I read it in UK news.

'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon

It is being described as a “revolutionary moment in the history of bookselling”: a socially conscious alternative to Amazon that allows readers to buy books online while supporting their local independent bookseller. And after a hugely successful launch in the US, it is open in the UK from today.

Bookshop was dreamed up by the writer and co-founder of Literary Hub, Andy Hunter. It allows independent bookshops to create their own virtual shopfront on the site, with the stores receiving the full profit margin – 30% of the cover price – from each sale. All customer service and shipping are handled by Bookshop and its distributor partners, with titles offered at a small discount and delivered within two to three days.

“It’s been a wild ride,” said Hunter, who launched the site in the US in January. “Five weeks into what we thought was going to be a six-month period of refining and improving and making small changes, Covid-19 hit and then suddenly we were doing massive business.”

Initially starting with 250 bookshops, more than 900 stores have now signed up in the US. “We went from selling $50,000 (£38,000) worth of books in all of February, to selling $50,000 a day in March, then $150,000 a day in April,” said Hunter. By June, Bookshop sold $1m worth of books in a day. The platform has now raised more than $7.5m (£5.7m) for independent bookshops across the US.

“We were four employees plus me, working at home, getting up as early as we could and going to bed as late as we could, trying to make it all work. It was a real white-knuckle ride,” said Hunter. “But it was extremely gratifying because the whole time we were getting messages from stores saying, ‘Thank God you came along, you’ve paid our rent, you’ve paid our health insurance this year.’ If you’re going to have to work in insane circumstances and with huge amounts of stress, it’s good to be doing it in something you feel good about.”

Bookshop is a B Corporation, created with the mission “to benefit the public good by contributing to the welfare of the independent literary community”. Rules state that it can never be sold to a major US retailer, including Amazon.

Hunter believes the reason for Bookshop’s quick success is readers’ fondness for their local booksellers. “Bookstores have been in trouble for a while because of Amazon’s growth, but this pandemic has really accelerated it. Amazon has gotten much more powerful, while there are 100-year-old stores that are hanging on for survival,” he said. “I think we were so successful because enough people were conscious of that, and wanted to rally around around their beloved bookstores, because they care about the world that we emerge from this pandemic into.”



https://bookshop.org

 

7djengo7

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Straight out of the blue, Evoken came to my mind today. I don't know why. Wherever he is, I hope he's well and happy.

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Nice fail: Out of the one side of your mouth, you hope someone is "well and happy", while out of the other side of your mouth, you hope he is ended by a giant meteor.
 

annabenedetti

like marbles on glass
It's blustery today, and after a long hot dry summer and fall, it's so refreshing. The winds they are a-changin'. :)

We're getting the first measurable rain in months, I can't remember when our last good rain was. So happy.

Homemade soup is simmering on the stove, and I've got the cornbread (mom's recipe) baking in my grandma's iron skillet so the edges get all crispy.

It finally, actually, feels like fall.
 

The Barbarian

BANNED
Banned
Four days ago, Mrs. Barbarian walking with me on the trail for our morning exercise, we encountered a man pushing a baby stroller. His maybe 2 1/2 YO daughter was running alongside him, not in the stroller. As we passed Mrs. B smiled at the little girl. She looked up and you could see the wheels turning in her head:

Wrinkles
Glasses
Greying hair
Smile...

A GRANDMA!

She ran to Mrs. B. with arms out. Mrs. B. was hesitant (COVID, you know), but the kid was hugging her legs. The man gently removed her, and everyone apologized about the infection thing. What we all took away was that the little girl saw the important clues about the person she saw, but apparently never gave an instant's thought to the fact that Mrs. B's skin was a different color than hers.

We walked on, and when we looked at each other, we had red eyes. Because at that time of hatred and division, we had just gotten a reminder that humans start out with decency and goodness. Looking back, it was kind of an omen.
 

annabenedetti

like marbles on glass
Four days ago, Mrs. Barbarian walking with me on the trail for our morning exercise, we encountered a man pushing a baby stroller. His maybe 2 1/2 YO daughter was running alongside him, not in the stroller. As we passed Mrs. B smiled at the little girl. She looked up and you could see the wheels turning in her head:

Wrinkles
Glasses
Greying hair
Smile...

A GRANDMA!

She ran to Mrs. B. with arms out. Mrs. B. was hesitant (COVID, you know), but the kid was hugging her legs. The man gently removed her, and everyone apologized about the infection thing. What we all took away was that the little girl saw the important clues about the person she saw, but apparently never gave an instant's thought to the fact that Mrs. B's skin was a different color than hers.

We walked on, and when we looked at each other, we had red eyes. Because at that time of hatred and division, we had just gotten a reminder that humans start out with decency and goodness. Looking back, it was kind of an omen.

What a heart-warmer, Barbarian. :) It's little moments like those that keep us going. Well, keeps me going, anyway.
 

Town Heretic

Out of Order
Hall of Fame
Hey Town Heretic I see you. :)

Thanks for letting me camp on your thread for a while, I always did love the title and wished it was mine... :eek:

Very happy to see it continued and it couldn't be in better hands. I'll think of something to add at some point, maybe. Maybe see if the old thread is still here and kick in some of the nonsense I've been littering Twitter and FB with.
 

Trump Gurl

Credo in Unum Deum
A place to make brief observations of the moments in your life that speak to you

When I saw this tweet I knew that Democrats and the Left are the enemy and need to be eradicated.


. . . Mrs. Barbarian . . .

There's a mindbender

. . . . It's little moments like those that keep us going . . . .

He's banned so keep going where he went.

. . . . it couldn't be in better hands. . . . .

The hands that voted for Infanticide, Sodomy, Socialism and Mobs.
 

Trump Gurl

Credo in Unum Deum
It's sad that you'd drop your vitriol . . . .

Says the person who supports the mobs killing police, burning and looting cities, and beating up old people in the streets.

Says the person who supports the party of Infanticide, Sodomy, Socialism and Mobs.

Interesting though, that the poster from Redding who bumps old CatholicCrusader threads uses Isabel Brown's photos as avatars.


The fact that you go snooping online like a Doxing Nazi is WHY I use other peoples' photos.

Why would I want an Antifa to see my REAL photo?
 
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Trump Gurl

Credo in Unum Deum
You're looking for someone to rage against, it's clear.

LOL. Why are all your posts getting deleted?

♪ ♫ ♬ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Where oh where has our fascist girl gone,
where oh where has she gooooone,

♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
LOL :ROFLMAO:

Thanks for letting me camp on your thread for a while

Not wanted anywhere else.

. . . . it couldn't be in better hands. . . . .

The hands that voted for Infanticide, Sodomy, Socialism and Mobs.
 

Trump Gurl

Credo in Unum Deum
Not only that, she's derailing this thread with off topic trolling and pathetically childish behaviour, something that was never its purpose.

Bye bye Britty. You never could be honest. My first post, #405, addressed the topic, and then other stuff secondary.

Your post, on the other hand, actually IS off topic trolling. I told you to chill out but you know it all man, you know everything, you told everybody else how to act but never acted right yourself. Adios.

And now back to the topic.

A place to make brief observations of the moments in your life that speak to you.

#1

I don't know their names these
birds at my window singing

some thing joyful
 
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annabenedetti

like marbles on glass
Not only that, she's derailing this thread with off topic trolling and pathetically childish behaviour, something that was never its purpose.

A momentary aberration. :)

Hope things are going well your way. My day started with a gorgeous sunrise and a close encounter with a fox, only the second time I've ever seen a fox in the wild (in this case the wilds of suburbia). It was amazing!
 

Trump Gurl

Credo in Unum Deum
A momentary aberration. :)

You were half right. You just had the wrong person. :D


I shall set the thread straight.

The OP:
A place to make brief observations of the moments in your life that speak to you.

#1

I don't know their names these
birds at my window singing

some thing joyful

I was at the store wearing my MAGA cap and an African American lady was very helpful and polite to me. I know she read the words on my cap cap, and for a brief second I thought I saw a reaction, but it passed just as fast as it came and she was very nice. I want to think that maybe she was practicing being a good neighbor and practicing placing good neighborliness above partisan strife. Of course I was just as polite in return. It was a nice, albeit brief, break from the daily strife and anger.
 
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