French culture minister Fleur Pellerin has promised to extend from one year to five years the loans granted to independent booksellers with cashflow problems out of a €5m fund set up in 2014 as part of a wider plan to help shore up the sector. Speaking in Lille at the biennial conference of the French Booksellers Association (Syndicat de la Librairie Française, SLF) this week, Pellerin said that the fund had produced some results, but that “above all booksellers demand longer-term help to restructure their working capital and to modernize.” Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookshops were just one sector of the French economy to suffer from the gilets jaunes (yellow vests) protests across France on five consecutive Saturdays between 17th November and 15th December. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A familiar picture of declining spending on UK public libraries, with yet more library closures and staff cuts, and continuing drops in library visits and book loan numbers, has been revealed in the latest library statistics compiled by CIPFA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Natasha Onwuemezi meets four lively indies that have opened recently, all of whom put their communities at the heart of what they do. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Having worked for large literary lists and on one of the UK’s premier literary magazines, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey says she’s right at home at three-strong independent list Indigo Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sixty-eight small presses will be descending on Central London's Conway Hall in the second week of November, for the 17th edition of the Small Publishers' Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Four independent bookshops - Drake The Bookshop in Stockton, Forum Books in Northumberland, Kenilworth Books in Warwickshire and The Mainstreet Trading Company’s Bookshop & Café in St Boswells - are in the running to be named Britain’s Best Small Shop of 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winner of Vintage's Independent Bookseller of the Year award is James Routledge from Forum Books and Kids in Corbridge, Northumberland. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors has welcomed a proposed increase in the rate of Public Lending Right (PLR) payments, but has voiced its dissatisfaction that the number of loans has continued to decline, exacerbated by cuts in library services and the exclusion of volunteer-run libraries from the scheme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent booksellers have expressed concerns that Waterstones is selling Super Thursday titles ahead of their publication date. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Women’s Prize for Fiction has introduced a new £1,000 fee for publishers whose books make its longlist of 16. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Suffolk-based independent John Catt has announced a rise in turnover to £605,000 in the year ending August 31st 2018, a lift of over 150% on the prior year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook announced Monday that its Ad Breaks <span aria-describedby="tt" class="glossaryLink " data-cmtooltip=" Monetization Monetization is utilizing existing website traffic or app users to produce revenue, often via ads or affiliate links. Influencers monetize their social media profiles... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SPD and CLMP have formed the Indie Booksellers Council, a group of 14 indie booksellers organized around boosting the sales and support of small press literary works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers refuse to ‘jump into the wolf’s mouth’ and order Marco Koskas’ Renaudot-longlisted novel onlineFrench booksellers have called on literary judges to “defend books and not those who threaten them”, after one of France’s most prestigious prizes selected a self-published novel available... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indies From the Madding Crowd, Imagined Things, Hunting Raven, Mostly Books, Moon Lane Ink and Newham Bookshop have all been named winners of the Independent Bookshop Innovation Award. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Murray is releasing a special edition of Stephen Hawking's final book Brief Answers to the Big Questions exclusively with independent bookshops. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Man Booker Prize is running a competition for independent bookshops with a cash prize of £1,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Poetry Book Society's Winter Selections have been dominated by independent publishers "for the first time ever", while the "prestigious" Winter Choice has been awarded to Raymond Antrobus, published by Penned in the Margins. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We took a long, hard look at the season’s offerings from independent and university presses, and, after consulting with PW’s reviews editors and booksellers, came up with a list of 20 books that readers won’t want to miss. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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