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In , two bookshops a week were closing in the UK and the days of physical books seemed numbered. Now, indie stores are booming. What explains the turnaround — and can it be sustained? Pregnant with her third child, she had recently given up her job as a solicitor to work for the Bournville Village Trust. Two years on, the Bookshop on the Green is thriving — a living rebuttal to the once widely held idea that the digital era meant certain death for the neighbourhood bookstore. When I visit early on a Friday morning, a turquoise vintage Smith Corona typewriter holds centre stage in the Bookshop on the Green. Beside it stands Bradley Taylor, a poet whose job is to write poems on demand for anyone who asks.

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Our online and telephone ordering service is the best way to get hold of thousands of books — and more besides. From the outset it has been both an online and a telephone order service, as it continues to be until this day. It provides an outlet for Guardian and Observer writers to publish books on the subjects they, and their readers, care about. We remain very closely involved in Guardian Faber and support each new publication as it is released. Very often, you will find the best available prices on Guardian Faber books at the Guardian Bookshop. The Guardian Bookshop is run as an independent commercial business. A proportion of each sale goes back to the Guardian to help fund its journalism.

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And after a hugely successful launch in the US, it is open in the UK from today. Bookshop was dreamed up by the writer and co-founder of Literary Hub, Andy Hunter. All customer service and shipping are handled by Bookshop and its distributor partners, with titles offered at a small discount and delivered within two to three days. Initially starting with bookshops, more than stores have now signed up in the US. Rules state that it can never be sold to a major US retailer, including Amazon. Hunter had been planning to launch Bookshop in the UK in or But after seeing the success of the platform in the US, shops, publishers and authors in the UK asked him to step up the timeline. The UK arm of the company will be run by managing director Nicole Vanderbilt, the former international vice-president of Etsy. Bookshops make no financial investment, with all customer service and shipping handled by Bookshop, and, in the UK, by distributor Gardners.

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Just off the market square in Beaminster, west Dorset, is a small, glass-fronted bookshop with bright green walls and an even brighter yellow armchair in the window. The double-fronted shop previously known as Word Power has been there since the s, when Oliver was a regular customer. A woman bustles in to pick up a loaf of bread from the back of the shop, which combines an arts and crafts area with a collection point for loaves baked by local refugee women. Published: 9 Mar Now, indie stores are booming. Readers' travel tips. Explore more on these topics Membership Inside the Guardian features. According to the Booksellers Association, after six years of consecutive growth, there are now 1, independent stores — up from in Best walks and days out from Wigtown. Andrey Kurkov. I do think this idea of a bookshop being an experience is actually really important.

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