A chance to win £250
... just by buying books.
Just a quickie. In a break from our usual format, a short promotional piece on something booklovers might be interested in.
Bookshop.org UK, if you don’t know it, is an alternative way of buying books online. Rather than putting money in the pockets of the likes of Jeff Bezos, it instead benefits Independent bookshops.
Buying books from them is just as easy as buying from Amazon, and the delivery is just as just as quick1.Plus, if you make a purchase THIS WEEKEND2, you could also win a £250 voucher.
You have a measure of control over where the profits go:
Nominate a participating Independent bookshop, and they receive 30% of the cover prices of your purchases for a year.
Otherwise, 10% of the cover price goes into a pool, which is then evenly shared between all the participating Indies.
They also have an Affiliate scheme. Books bought via an Affiliate give 10% of the cover price to the Affiliate as well as 10% to the pool. Affiliates might be authors, websites, publications, organisations or individuals - anyone who promotes books.
I am an affiliate, incidentally3. I write book reviews on my website, and I only shelve books at bookshop.org that I've reviewed, but you can have a look at what I've got here. The list includes JM Burgoyne’s astonishing debut Writer, Kevin Crossley-Holland’s essay collection New Leaves on an Old Tree, and RF Kuang’s Yellowface.
But whether you're buying through me, or nominate your favourite participating Indie, or just want to order a book this weekend, I'd recommend going to uk.bookshop.org to do so.
Here ends the shill.
Speaking from experience, I have used them.
2nd or 3rd March
I say incidentally, I mean clearly that’s why I’m sending this.