Publishers Weekly's Ed Nawotka piece quotes CEO Andy Hunter on Bookshop.org's 2025 numbers: roughly $70 million in revenue, up 55% year over year, with $9.5 million in profit-sharing to partner stores in a single year and more than $46 million paid out since launch. Romance is no longer a niche slice - it's landing in the top three categories most months - and e-books, introduced in January 2025, are already above 5% of revenue, helped by the Draft2Digital catalog and a Spotify integration that puts print orders in front of a huge listener base.
Hunter also talks hardware ambitions: a Bookshop-branded e-ink reader is delayed because memory prices spiked, so the team is weighing simpler devices or a partner. For 2026 he's modeling 15-30% growth and pushing deeper POS integration so readers can buy online and pick up locally - basically treating indies as a network, not a side hustle.