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Building a New Bookstore Brand to take on Amazon

Bookshop sells books online to help indie bookstores IRL

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After running book publisher Catapult for a few years and becoming increasingly connected to indie book stores everywhere, Andy Hunter – co-founder of Electric Literature and LitHub as well – decided it was time to help independent book stores succeed in a world dominated by Amazon. The premise boiled down to this: taking a bite – even 1% – out of Amazon's online book sales, and redirecting much of the profits to indie book stores, could create an important lifeline for those businesses and provide them some exposure that they may not have the funds or technical skills to create for themselves.

We'd already worked successfully with Andy in the past, so we were excited to take on this challenge. Initially, we set out to rapidly create a brand identity that could resonante with both entrenched literary folks in the book world and book lovers who may be newer to the scene. The logo mark depicts a 'B' while also implying a stack of two books. The colors are playful, unique, and far enough on the color spectrum away from Amazon that no one would confuse the two. 

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Web

Segment

E-commerce & Retail

Service

Engineering

Design

Product Management

Strategy

Technical Architecture

Branding

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Bookshop, an ecommerce startup intended to help independent bookstores assert themselves online, has Amazon in its sights.

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