“Dear friends, dear friends: We are writing to tell you a piece of news: this is our last newsletter”. In this way has announced sales platform book online Spanish Bookshop.org ENwhich also has a Catalan version, closing its activities after two years of operation. The same fate befell the giants of the Book Depository sector, that Amazon has decided to close immediately despite its 400 million euro turnover.

As Bookshop.org points out on its website, “we have realized that this project requires major modifications, both in our business model and in the technology we use to offer our services, to make it viable. In the current economic context, Bookshop.org cannot face these changes with the assurance we would like and, for this reason, we have decided to close our project in Spain”.

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Bookshop.org opens in 2021 as ‘Benefit Corporation’, a project driven by effects from pandemic, which also had a major impact on the bookstore sector. Its main aim is to provide assistance not only to readers, but also to small affiliated bookstores, which can provide online sales services through the platform, and even to promoters of book clubs and recipe books through social networks.

A portion of the income is distributed linearly among related business, when it is not the buyer of the book himself who chooses which bookstore he wants to receive a percentage of the purchase of the book. With this procedure, according to the accountants of Bookshop.org, during the two years of its activity, €80,132.02 was generated for the independent bookstore.

“Spain has an excellent network of independent bookstores. We encourage you to visit them, promote them and buy your book in them, both in physical stores and on their website and in allyourbooks. com CEGAL”, concluded the statement.

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The Book Depository’s global online bookselling platform suffered a similar fate on these dates. Founded in 2004 in the UK, the business has reached millions of dollars in just a decade, with service to over 120 countries in 37 different currencies and zero shipping costs. His real-time book sales maps on the website are iconic among book lovers: every second at least one book is sold and the map shows the place and the title where it was obtained through the platform.

Amazon bought the book distribution giant in 2011, which announced sales of 20 million books, and has now announced, within the framework of the general cuts it has implemented in business, the closure of Book Depositories scheduled for April 26 this year.