Collection:
Products
12 Notes
A Little Devil in America
A Quick Ting on Afrobeats
A Thousand Threads
Across the Universe
Alien Listening
An Equal Music (PL)
Be My Baby
Beats and Elements
Becoming a Composer
Beyond the Story
Blues People
Coming Through the Slaughter
Conversations in Color: Exploring North American Musical Theatre
Down with the System
Duet: An Artful History of Music
Ellie Pillai is Brown
Finding the Raga
Fingers Crossed
Fire Rush
Good Morning, Love
Greetings from Bury Park
Half Blood Blues
High and Rising
Hip Hop & Hymns
Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production
Hip-Hop Is History
House of Music
It Was All A Dream
Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
Kill 'Em and Leave
KING
Live the Lizzo Way
Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age
Loveboat Forever
Major Labels
Make Your Own Rules
Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands
Music is History
My Sister's Big Fat Indian Wedding
Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom
New Kings of the World
Not Quite White
Ordinary Notes
Redemption
Rivers Flow
Soul-Folk
Steady for This
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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.