The Bookshop.org Founder Andy Hunter On Taking Down Amazon | The Everygirl Book Club Maggio [ylQzFpM6rLn]

Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org, joins the Everygirl Book Club to talk about taking on Amazon, why independent bookstores are booming again, and the books he can't stop recommending this summer.

Andy built Bookshop.org to get more of the online book market into the hands of independent bookstores instead of Amazon and in this episode he breaks down how the company works, why it's legally barred from ever selling to Amazon (or any major retailer/private equity), and what BookTok has done to the book industry, for better and worse.

We also get his book recommendations for summer 2026, the childhood books that shaped him into a lifelong reader, and his honest advice for anyone who dreams of opening their own bookstore.

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BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

- Dodge City Patrick deWitt

- A Real Animal Emmeline Atwood

- Famous Men silver price today Julie Buntin

- A Guardian and a Thief Megan Musumdar

- I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

- Habits of the Sea - Shea Ernshaw

- Watership Down Richard Adams

- The Tin Drum Gnter Grass

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro

00:30 Meet Andy Hunter, founder & CEO of Bookshop.org

01:00 Reading Receipts: what Andy's reading on vacation

01:15 Book rec: "Dodge City" by Patrick deWitt

04:00 Book rec: "A Real Animal" by Emmeline Atwood

04:45 Book rec: "Famous Men" by Julie rb leipzig vs st. pauli Buntin

06:30 How Andy became a lifelong reader as a kid

08:00 The childhood books that shaped him (Watership Down, The Tin Drum, more)

13:00 Raising readers: how Andy got his kids to love books

16:00 The origin story of Bookshop.org pitching investors who said "you're doomed"

19:00 How the pandemic changed everything for Bookshop.org

20:30 BookTok, BookTube & Bookstagram's impact on indie bookstores

23:00 The downside of BookTok: are we losing the "midlist"?

27:00 Advice for anyone who wants to open a bookstore

30:00 Ethical consumption, greenwashing michel bergeron & why it's in Bookshop.org's legal documents

41:00 What happens to the money real stories from booksellers

53:00 Bookshop.org's goals for the next 510 years

56:30 Litigation segment: is a home library "overconsumption"?