Michael Palin urges readers to use independent bookshops' online rival to Amazon

By Daily Mail Reporter -  12th October 2011

Save the humble bookshop: Michael Palin is urging readers to use a website that helps independent traders

Author Michael Palin is on a mission to save the independent bookshop and has urged fans to buy his books from a new website designed to help save them.
The Monty Python star is just one of a handful of authors supporting Hive, a new concept where people buy books, e-books and DVDs online and a percentage of each sale goes to a local independent bookshop.
Although Palin's books will still be sold on Amazon which is seen as a major threat to smaller shops, the author hopes lending

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