Collection:
Products
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
Across the Universe
Becoming a Composer
Blues People
Duet: An Artful History of Music
Finding the Raga
High and Rising
It Was All A Dream
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly
Kill 'Em and Leave
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age
Make Your Own Rules
Music is History
Musical Truth
Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
Rivers Flow
Soul-Folk
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap's Masked Iconoclast
The Hip-Hop MBA
The Philosophy of Jazz
The Power of Music: How Music Connects Us All
Tupac Shakur
Yes I Can
You're History
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.
