A new website for independent bookshops is just what the industry needs | Simon Jenkins

The high street is clearly facing disaster, but in order to survive it must make peace with the online world

Good news from the high street. We don’t often read those words, least of all courtesy of the internet. The UK opening on Monday of the Bookshop website is a blood transfusion for independent bookshops and one from which all retailers can learn. The website is a mail-order circumvention of Amazon, selling books under the flags of more than 130 independent booksellers. Buyers order their bo...