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Bookshop.org sales up 2,000% in a month

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Bookshop.org sales up 2,000% in a month

Apr 09 2020

Sales at Bookshop.org continue to grow. Founder Andy Hunter said that the site is selling about 8,000 books a day and has more than 450 bookstores on the platform. Sales have risen 2,000% in a month, and Bookshop has raised more than $400,000 for distribution to independent bookstores... For a venture that launched early this year, it's been a wild time. "We basically experienced two years' worth of normal growth in about three weeks," Hunter said.

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