Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter’s crusade to save books from Amazon

The company is amping up its fight against Amazon with a new frontier: ebooks.

The company is amping up its fight against Amazon with a new frontier: ebooks.

Today, I’m talking with Andy Hunter, the CEO of Bookshop.org. Bookshop, at its core, is a website that lets local bookshops all over the country — and in a few other countries — sell their books online. If you want a book, you go to Bookshop and click buy — it’s just as easy as Amazon, except a local bookstore gets some of the money.

Just recently, Bookshop launched ebooks to compete with Amazon’s giant Kindle business — a simple idea with

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