As the curtain raises on Independent Bookshop Week, Helen Dunmore argues that, despite the convenience of shopping online, readers need to browse real shelves packed with real booksThe 10 best independent bookshops in the world – our readers recommendWe read not only with our eyes, but with our hearts. Every sense is in play. We shiver with fear, weep, laugh aloud, blaze with anger, are seduced, aroused, enchanted. We read with our senses of taste and smell, with skin and brain and intuition. We read intellectually, emotionally, erotically. We read in order to understand our lives, to become what we are not and through this to question what we are. For a few hours we enter the minds and bodies of lovers, criminals, artists. We are insiders, present as latitude is defined or Anne Boleyn murdered. We enter the minds of explorers and scientists, even though we may not be able to do the maths. Ages fly before us, and we step on to other continents. Our identity shifts. We understand other languages, even if we do not speak them. We live in 16th-century London, or Hogwarts. We run on the moors with Cathy and Heathcliff. We are watched by Big Brother, and sense our own weakness in the face of implacable totalitarianism. Related: David Nicholls: Browsing bookshops then buying online is a 'genteel form of shoplifting' Related: Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide – in pictures Related: A life in writing: Helen Dunmore I can give you no conception of my welcome here. There... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The White Horse Bookshop is sponsoring the Richard Jefferies Society Writers’ Prize while the book trade is experiencing a “golden age of nature writing”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s is set to open a consumer-focused bookshop in Oxford Westgate Shopping Centre – the company’s fourth bookshop in the city. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For Independent Booksellers' Week Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page on how "bookselling in its oldness is part of the new". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sally Davies, the director of East London bookshop Libreria, is stepping down from her role. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jojo Moyes' Me Before You (Michael Joseph) becomes the first book to defend the top spot on the Weekly E-Book Ranking. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A range of titles celebrating this hard-to-translate aspect of the country’s culture is being lined up to tap the appetite for all things NordicForget the bloody crime novels of Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbø and the bleak crime television of The Bridge and The Killing. The latest Scandinavian... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent publisher Accent Press is to open Octavo’s, a new bookshop, café and wine bar in the heart of Cardiff Bay’s creative quarter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of JK Rowling’s much-loved books jump 133%, boosted by illustrated edition, contributing to 8% profit rise at publisherHarry Potter is still working his magic for the publisher Bloomsbury after nearly 20 years, with sales more than doubling over the past year thanks to a new illustrated... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The website, which hosts a digital community of more than 385,000 readers, has undergone a significant facelift and will place a heavier influence on long-form content. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The news coming from the American Booksellers Association at BEA is that there’s been a net increase of 660 independent stores since 2009 – a reflection if ever there was one of the growing power of localism in the US. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Big Green Bookshop is to donate all profits from the sales of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Little, Brown) to local schools to enable them to buy books for their libraries. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers have been lobbying publisher Little, Brown to change the date of the release of the eighth Harry Potter story so that chain stores can sell the book without breaking Sunday trading laws. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookshops in Oxfordshire and Southampton are among the latest independents to open in the UK - with a twist. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Rakuten Kobo has partnered with D&R, Turkey’s largest book and media retailer, to sell ebooks and devices to Turkish readers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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To promote the new paperback edition of Nina George's novel, the PRH division has rolled out a comprehensive promotional initiative spanning multiple house imprints and verticals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On April 30, New York City will add a third children's specialty store, Stories, launched by novelist Maggie Pouncey and her husband, tech entrepreneur Matt Miller. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Big Green Bookshop has been inundated with donations after it was targeted by a thief on Wednesday. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Big Green Bookshop in London's Wood Green had £600 stolen from its till yesterday. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In hero-quest terms, the recovery of the Sorcerer's Stone was Harry Potter's first big win, even though he didn't get to keep it. By the time Harry woke up after his first battle with You Know Who, the stone, with all its life-extending and gold-producing properties, had, in fact, been destroyed.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent specialist bookshop Tonbridge Christian Book Centre has been bought by Christian bookshop chain CLC Bookshops for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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