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Bookshops have been a bellwether measure during this crisis. The media hunger for information on the recovery of bookshops has been insatiable, and the outpouring of affection for bookshops as they re-open extremely moving. Bookshops stand as emblems for the prospects for the high street as we... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-12 12:14:23 UTC ]
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Children's bookshop Button & Bear in Shrewsbury is to close blaming the "fickle" high street and customer expectations on price. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-08 23:59:54 UTC ]
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Shoppers will be cautious about returning to the high street but Waterstones will emerge from the coronavirus crisis and eventually have a wider range of shops, the firm's c.e.o. James Daunt has said. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-02 12:12:46 UTC ]
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Booksellers have called for clarity from Boris Johnson’s government as measures to tackle the coronavirus outbreak hit the high street. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-17 08:20:02 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association is calling on customers and the trade to rally behind retailers and support bookshops, as the coronavirus outbreak hits the high street. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-17 03:39:11 UTC ]
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce temporary relief from business rates for high-street shops at his first Budget today. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-11 06:20:53 UTC ]
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The government will announce cuts to business rates in the Queen’s Speech today (19th December) in a bid to revive the high street. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-19 04:26:38 UTC ]
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Pete Selby, head of books for W H Smith, has called on the book industry to make the high street more diverse and inclusive for young readers, saying that diversity is going to become a "significant" part of WHS' strategy. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-22 19:12:13 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has joined forces with more than 50 UK retailers to demand changes to the business rates system in a bid to save the high street. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-12 17:07:43 UTC ]
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Stephen Clarke is stepping down as group chief executive at W H Smith with high street m.d. Carl Cowling to take on the role, as the group reports strong sales in its latest report. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-05-21 07:15:56 UTC ]
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Germany’s book market narrowly avoided another major disappointment when a last-minute surge in the high street before Christmas pushed sales marginally ahead of 2017. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Music retailer HMV has appointed KPMG as administrators, citing the challenges to the high street and an "unsustainable" fall in the market for DVDs this Christmas. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors Cathy Newman and Jonathan Coe have urged customers to take their business to the high street this Christmas season after suffering stock shortages of their titles on Amazon.co.uk. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Jones reacts to this week's Budget news, including Hammond's mooted UK digital services tax. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond will use today's Budget to announce a £1.5bn package of support for the High Street, including £900m in business rate relief, according to widespread reports. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mr B's Emporium in Bath is crowdfunding to expand its premises, with plans for "something that shows kids, and reminds grown-ups, how exciting reading can be and that shows the high street is very much alive and kicking". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The media is wakening up to the threat posed to the high street by Amazon, and the contribution made to wider society by bookshops, Booksellers Association president Nick Bottomley told delegates at the BA's annual conference. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Leading a team that 'works hard to simplify and enhance the supply chain,' Gardners' Bob Jackson prepares for Frankfurt Book Fair's The Markets: 'online and on the high street.' The post Gardners’ Bob Jackson: ‘To Identify New Retailers’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Ship of Adventures bookshop in London's Hackney has been named in Small Business Saturday UK’s "Small Biz 100" for 2016, a campaign promoting and supporting small businesses on the high street. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The world’s biggest online retailer wants to invade the high street. What’s in it for them?In December, Amazon US released its 2015 in-house all-format all-category bestseller list, and then the newspaper USA Today came out with its own industry-wide all-sources version. What was the difference?... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2016-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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