Shop Local
While we here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library are always happy when people get books into their hands, we’re especially delighted if it happens by way of an independent bookseller.
The idea of #ShopLocal and #ShopIndie benefits local communities as well as economies, local authors and artists, and all of us as readers.
As part of supporting such efforts, we have begun adding connections to the Shop Local initiative of Bookmanager, a Canadian company that provides bookstore management software to many independent booksellers in Canada and the US.
These buttons connect you to listings for a given book at indie booksellers that may be near you, especially our Canadian patrons. In putting these in place, we’ve even discovered some booksellers of which we had previously been unaware.
To be clear, we do not get any financial benefit for providing these links. We’re just happy to try and make it easier to look up and buy something that catches your interest in our collections.
As early adopters of this functionality, we would love to hear what you think or any suggestions you have for improving our integration of these links.
And if you do happen to order something through these links, maybe drop a note in your order to let them know who sent you!
Some examples:
You can learn more about Shop Local on the Bookmanager website.
Happy bookbuying!
– Stacey and Winston