After listening to Nilay Patel’s interview with Andy Hunter from Bookshop.org, I went and checked out their new ebook offering. It’s pretty good, and while I am not a huge fan of ebooks personally—I still prefer reading real books—I think it’s great that there is an alternative to Amazon for purchasing them.

Yes, it is annoying that most the ebooks they sell are locked with DRM, but the publishers are to blame for that one; you should go shout at them about it, not Bookshop.

The other complaint I have seen about Bookshop’s ebooks is that they can’t be read on a Kindle. That one makes no sense at all to me; Amazon sells Kindles at or below cost as a means of maintaining their stranglehold on the ebook market—they have zero interest in or incentive to open the devices to other stores.