Bookshops have been a bellwether measure during this crisis. The media hunger for information on the recovery of bookshops has been insatiable, and the outpouring of affection for bookshops as they re-open extremely moving. Bookshops stand as emblems for the prospects for the high street as we edge our way to a tentative new reality and the appropriate balance between public health and essential economic activity. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
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The Independent Bookshop of the Year category of the 2019 Nibbies has a 48-store shortlist and is broken into nine regions in its initial round. The post British Book Awards Program Names Nine Bookshop Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, has revealed the regional shortlists for the 2019 Independent Bookshop of the Year, sponsored by Gardners Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blackwell’s will open a new bookshop in Manchester tomorrow, with c.e.o. David Prescott saying the store “feels like nothing we’ve done before”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette UK will sponsor Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) and authors Cressida Cowell, Patrick Gale, Katherine Rundell and screenwriter Ben Aaronovitch will tour bookshops across the country as part of the annual celebration of indies. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller is teaming up with World Book Day to launch a competition for bookshops. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A difficult relationship with his father was one of the factors which pushed Tim Waterstone to succeed in establishing the bookshop chain that bears his name, the retail entrepreneur has revealed in an extract from his forthcoming memoir, published in the Daily Mail. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Independent Bookshop Alliance is being relaunched, with Simon Key urging booksellers to come together to decide the future aims of the organisation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Furet du Nord chain of bookshops in northern France has confirmed its takeover of the Decitre group, which it describes as its alter-ego in the south-east region of France. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A former stand-up comic has launched a crowdfunding project for a community bookshop in the medieval village of Bletchingly. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A digital consultant has launched a crowdfunder to create London’s first black feminist bookshop. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Knights Of has reached its £30,000 crowdfunding target to fund a bookshop selling children’s books with BAME characters. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York's Drama Book Shop is taken over by the Hamilton creator and three of his collaborators. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2019-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association has reported a second year of growth in its independent bookshop membership, with 15 new shops joining the trade body in 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tim West, co-founder of The Big Green Bookshop in Wood Green, plans to open a new, co-operative bookshop locally in the wake of the closure of the bricks and mortar Big Green store. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Big Green Bookshop is closing down its physical premises as owner Simon Key moves the business to online only, with "absolute monster" rates and rents forcing him to shut the bricks and mortar shop. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-03 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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Publisher says it hopes to help the #ReadtheOnePercent pop-up store in south London ‘smash its target’ of £30,000, which it is crowdfunding in order to become permanentPenguin Random House has pledged £15,000 to south London’s #ReadtheOnePercent bookshop, which only stocks children’s books with... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House UK has pledged £15,000 to the #ReadTheOnePercent Bookshop crowdfunding campaign, launched by Knights Of. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book publishing is a business and increasingly a technical one, but at its heart it is an art, writes Peter J. Dougherty from Princeton University Press in this opinion piece. Continue reading at Knowledge@Wharton
[ Knowledge@Wharton | 2018-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Publishers Association has tentatively welcomed the outcome of last night’s no-confidence vote, with Theresa May’s continued leadership increasing the chances of a deal-based Brexit which would at least give publishers "a basis on which they can plan for the future". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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