New Bookindy app helps bookshops fight back against Amazon

Type in a book you’d like to read, and the app will compare the Amazon price with nearby independent book shops – in the hope you’ll go and buy thereIndependent booksellers have launched a new weapon in their two-pronged offensive against online retailers such as Amazon and the supermarket chains who pile books high and sell them low.In a neat piece of entrepreneurial oneupmanship, the Bookindy app uses Amazon’s own technology to upstage it, answering its inventor’s question: “Can you promote local independent bookshops on the very system that’s designed to destroy them?” Related: Ursula K Le Guin launches broadside on Amazon's 'sell it fast, sell it cheap' policy Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Prime Day 2024: The best deals to shop ahead of Prime Day and everything we know so far about the sale in July

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Antstream will be the iPhone’s first official game streaming app

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Amazon Prime Day 2024: The best deals to shop ahead of the Prime Day sale and everything we know so far

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Washington Post’s newly named editor backs out of job, will stay in Britain

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