Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 23/08/2011 - 08:28 A bookshop founded by A A Milne's son may be saved from closure as the owners enter tentative talks with new buyers. The Harbour Bookshop in Dartmouth was opened 60 years ago by Christopher Robin Milne, the inspiration for his father's famous Winnie-The Pooh stories, but its present owners Rowland and Caroline Abram are being forced to close the shop due to poor sales and rising rates and rents. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has created a search button for host websites which will direct book... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pages of Hackney in East London will today hold what is being billed as London’s first ever... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers will soon be asked to choose their top 10 “surprise Christmas hits” from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The embattled St. Mark's Bookshop has a new defender. Lucky Ant, a year-old, hyper-local crowd-funding platform, is helping the 35-year-old East Village literary landmark raise the money it needs to move to a cheaper location. The online campaign, at Luckyant.com, launched Wednesday at midnight,... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s has returned a campus bookshop presence to Queens University Belfast after the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As Independent Booksellers Week gets into full swing, the Booksellers Association has released... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Guardian is launching an interactive map of the UK and Ireland’s bookshops in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The University of Exeter and Blackwell's have launched what is being called a "different... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers must address their "toxic" real estate and band together to compete in an... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An English-language bookshop in Paris is to close its doors in July after 30 years. The Village... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon, saved from shutting its doors when the owner's son tweeted a plea to help save it, is now celebrating its 20th birthday. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google has told UK bookshops that it is shutting its reseller programme, and has invited the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dutch investment company ProCures has bought all 16 branches of upmarket book chain Selexyz.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, London, is to have its own "writer in residence... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The future of two long-lived campus bookshops serving the universities of Leicester and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tensions between academic booksellers and publishers are likely to heighten following the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Willesden Bookshop is searching for new premises after Brent council plans to develop the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wesley Owen has announced it may close all but one of its chain of Christian bookshops, saying... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is to open a Russian-language "bookshop" within its flagship London... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The team behind the successful book Change the World for a Fiver has launched a free newspaper... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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