A heart-warming love letter to books and bookshops, by an amenable fellow turned antisocial old misanthrope“I was in here two years ago and you had a book by Roger Penrose. Do you know what happened to it?” Shaun Bythell – owner of the Book Shop in Wigtown, Galloway – has 100,000 books in stock, sells 20,000 a year, and has handled nearly 1m second-hand books since he bought the shop in 2001. Unsurprisingly, the Roger Penrose volume had not stuck in his mind.Before he entered the book trade at the tender age of 31, he was “amenable and friendly”. Now, after many years of fielding bizarre questions, constant haggling over prices (why is it “acceptable to try to screw the profit out of struggling small businesses” but not supermarkets?), and struggling to survive despite Amazon’s “icy grip” on bookselling, he has been forced to embrace the stereotype of the “impatient, intolerant, antisocial proprietor”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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UK book wholesaler Bertrams is teaming up with former Book Depository IT director Will Jones to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has acquired a novel by Robert Lautner, a historical author working under a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Called 'the best e-reader you can buy,' the Paperwhite has debuted to almost universal praise. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstone's range manager Sarah Clarke, Ron Johns of Mabrecon Books (pictured) and Foyle... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An erotic novel has become Penguin's most successful ever ebook in terms of weekly sales,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Some bookshops are invoking the name of Super Thursday for promotions and marketing. Chapter... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The launch of a government review into ebook lending in public libraries has been met with a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Industry insiders are predicting further restructures across the travel sector, following news... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers have become book writers for a popular science project from Icon Books. Icon’s... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mixed reviews for J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy (Little, Brown) this morning (27th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government is also pressuring Chinese publishers to stop translating and publishing Japanese content as tension increases between the two countries. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Government-appointed panel to consider what role can ebooks play in our libraries in future. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2012-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The government is expected to announce a review of library e-lending tomorrow (Wednesday 26th... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins imprint The Friday Project has signed another title in its Confessions series,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin is understood to have begun a review of its travel division, with staff informed today (... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers and retailers need to better understand each others businesses in order to improve a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller Association’s president Patrick Neale has said the need to change the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book sales jumped by more than £1m last week as sales of academic titles helped to offset... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has released a free ebook, No, It's Us Too!, today (11th September)... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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British crime writer R.J. Ellory is the latest author to be caught out writing glowing online reviews of his own work. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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