Challenge Amazon is a very good start.

 

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Editor’s note: During the epidemic, various shops, especially bookstores, had to be closed. Their disappearance and possible closure in the future made people finally realize the importance of these shops to the urban cultural space. Destroyed them. Bookshop and Libro.fm are two recent start-ups with strong user growth. They use more favorable prices to stand on the moral high ground, pointing directly to Amazon’s monopoly in the book field. But can they really challenge Amazon? This article was published on Medium, author Angela Lashbrook, original title Two Book Startups Compete Where Amazon Won’t

The Kindle and paper books are displayed side by side on the bookshelf. Image source: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images

At least as far as our online life is concerned, we can still see a silver lining in this pandemic: a number of small start-ups have emerged on our Internet Enterprises, they survived the epidemic and began to compete with the Internet giants we are used to.

  • Zoom defeated Facebook and Google, but it also became one of the Internet giants that took up our most time. Based on this situation, startups started Develop a variety of quirky video chat tools, hoping to get a share in this market.

  • Now this kind of consciousness is gaining more popularity.

    We can support the commercial infrastructure in the city. We want these cultural spaces to continue to exist. We can buy books ethically and in places where we don’t crush employees. This is the first step we have taken, it is very important, but it is only the first step. Nevertheless, challenging Amazon is a very good start.

    Translator: Xitang