
Bookshop.org Ebooks 12+
Support local bookstores
Bookshop, Inc.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Bookshop's mission is simple: To help local, independent bookstores thrive in the age of ecommerce.
Now with Bookshop's new ebook platform, your ebooks will support your local bookstore as well.
In our reader app you can:
- read ebooks in your library
- browse millions of ebooks to add to your wishlist
- seamlessly connect with Bookshop to ensure that all of your online book purchases support your community
Certified as a B Corp, Bookshop puts our mission and the public good above financial interests, giving over 80% of our profit margin to independent bookstores. Since 2020, we have raised over $35 million for independent bookstores.
What’s New
Version 1.1.4
• General performance improvements and bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Nice Start!
I’m so excited to be able to switch to Bookshop and support local bookstores! I attempted to read a book on here and I have a couple issues. I don’t understand why vertical scroll only works when my iPad is upright vertically. When I read on my iPad, I read with it flipped horizontally since most iPad cases have a stand to hold them up horizontally. It would be easier for couch and bed reading if there was vertical scroll no matter what way the iPad is turned. I’m a big fan of continuous scroll horizontally and hate having to “turn the page”. Another thing I’d love to see is more fonts, as I’ve seen a few others mention. It would also be interesting to see if there was a way to change font color. I enjoy reading in dark mode, but have noticed some other apps opt for a light gray for font color because stark white on the black background can be harsh on the eyes. Overall, I’m glad that there seems to be regular updates to concerns that others have mentioned. I know this is a new app, so I’m excited to see what improvements will be made in the future!
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your feedback! I'm sorry for the issue with the vertical scroll - we have a fix coming in our next release to resolve the issue you're experiencing so you can use vertical scroll in horizontal/landscape mode. We also are planning to launch several more font options and give more flexibility to readers with font and background choices, so stay tuned for those enhancements, and happy reading!
Love the app, needs a few improvements and accessibility features.
Love this alternative to mainstream apps!!! A few tweaks I would love to see:
The app needs screen orientation lock option (or iOS automation option) for people who like or need to read laying down or reclining without locking screen rotation for all apps. It’s frustrating to keep juggling backs d forth, particularly because when the screen rotates to landscape and then back again, you lose your place.
The other feature needed is bookmarks. Opening the app, it is hit or miss if the app remembers your location in the book. Similarly, the app seems to “forget” settings like fonts and background colors. App updates should retain all such settings.
Finally, I would love to see more options for text format, other reader apps have options for dyslexic readers, like contrast and special fonts.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for helping us support independent bookstores, and for your feedback on ways we can improve! We agree that we have more work to do for the app to provide a truly smooth reading experience, and we are actively working to address the issues you reported as well as enhance the feature set to include orientation lock, add a dyslexic font and more font options.
The good news is we do have bookmark functionality, which you can access with the "pill" menu that renders when you click on the middle of the page of a book. If you have additional feedback to help us continue to improve the reading experience, we'd welcome your thoughts at [email protected].
Needs work
Tried the search function and couldn’t scroll through the list of hits—took a bunch of tries each time I tried to scroll up or down. Checked it a few times and same results. There’s a continuous scroll setting for reading ebooks, but it still makes you hit a button to go to the next page when you hit the end of a chapter, and it treated each poem in a poetry collection as a chapter. If you don’t select the annoying “continuous scroll” option the text is automatically two column, at least on the iPad, no matter how I rotated it, which is not how I want to read ebooks. Easily the worst commercial ebook reader I’ve encountered.
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the review! Your feedback is noted and appreciated.
The column issue specifically should be addressed in a forthcoming update.
The continuous scroll requiring a button press between sections is well known and something we hope to fix in the future.
Curious to know if the issue with scrolling through search results is still an issue in the newer versions of the app. In any case, don't hesitate to reach out to our customer service team with any further questions or feedback here: [email protected]. Thanks again!
App Privacy
The developer, Bookshop, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Search History
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Information
- Seller
- Bookshop, Inc.
- Size
- 91.8 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.4 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Copyright
- © Bookshop, Inc.
- Price
- Free