Rewind: Bookshop CEO's crusade to save books from Amazon

Hello and welcome to Decoder. This is senior producer Nick Statt. We're on a small break for the end of summer, and sadly, Neilai will still be out on parental leave for a little while longer when we come back. But we have an excellent slate of guest host episodes starting up next month, so stay tuned for those. In the meantime, we wanted to bring back one of our favorite Decoder interviews from earlier this year.

It's with Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter, who back in January launched a pretty bold ebook initiative to take on Amazon and Kindle. It's been about seven months since that ebook launch, and Bookshop is seeing results. The company last week reported 65% growth in the first six months of the year, and it just crossed $1 million in ebook sales. So we thought it was a good time to revisit our interview with Andy on why he's so passionate about building an alternative to Amazon. Okay, Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter.

Enjoy. Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Ipatel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. 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.

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