The Man Booker Prize is running a competition for independent bookshops with a cash prize of £1,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Watkins Media is launching a campaign for independent bookshops for its upcoming title Foraging With Kids by Adele Nozedar. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent bookshops can win £500 and a visit from Jonny Duddle via a new window display competition, organised by Templar Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Over 25 radical and independent bookshops are taking part in a two-week long celebration of feminist books in a bid to add to the debate about diversity in publishing and showcase books by women writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A bumper crop of Britain and Ireland’s best independent bookshops are bucking the market trend, achieving double-digit sales rises in 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Big Green Bookshop is proposing to set up an alliance of independent bookshops in order to negotiate better discounts on books to compete with the bigger chains and retailers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House Children’s and David Fickling Books are releasing 5,000 La Belle Sauvage book plates, signed by author Philip Pullman, to independent bookshops as part of “special plans” promised last month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent bookshops have been praised by authors as “oases of intellectual and physical comfort” as the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award nominees have been released. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The number of independent bookshops in the UK has fallen for the 11th year in a row, according to the Booksellers Association’s annual membership figures, but the rate of closure has slowed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller is calling on independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland to complete its annual Christmas Trading survey. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent bookshops are gearing up for a second year of events to mark “Civilised Saturday” – billed as the antidote to the mayhem of deep discounting day Black Friday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Small presses, libraries and independents are all under threat. No one wants to hear their child ask: ‘What’s a bookshop?’On Saturday it is Bookshop Day. My heart always sinks a little when I hear that a day has been set aside to celebrate something I love: it too often feels like being put on a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
My friend and colleague Trevor Moore, who has died aged 79, was a passionate advocate for a number of publishers’ lists, spending most of his working life in the book trade. Trevor’s early career spanned Hutchinson, Hamish Hamilton, Collins, Andre Deutsch, Methuen, Hodder, Weidenfeld and Bantam... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Footfall at shops across the UK fell over the Bank Holiday weekend, but several independent bookshops have reported an increase in sales, with more visitors than usual. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Exclusive bookshop editions, a Hachette author tour and national comic workshops are among the festivities lined up for this year’s Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) - a celebration of independent bookshops. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent bookshops have been able to make “huge” improvements thanks to writer James Patterson’s “generous” and “forward-thinking” initiative which has awarded more than £500,000 in grants to some 272 indie retailers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent bookshops from St Ives to Ireland are among the 62 to receive the final round of grants from author James Patterson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
After putting booksellers out of business, Amazon is set to open its own retail chain.Amazon, the online retailer that killed off so many independent bookshops, is getting ready to launch its own brick-and-mortar book chain. According to the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of a major mall operator,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2016-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent bookshops have reported robust Christmas trading, with 72% saying sales increased on last year, reflecting a buoyant market for indie bookshops amid the best Christmas for physical book sales in five years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller's annual Christmas Trading Survey for independent bookshops is now live. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]