Bookselling

• Bezos: saint or sinner?

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Wednesday, 3rd February 2021

  Time for an assessment now as the richest bookseller the world has ever known leaves the stage
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• Lockdown 2: Brace for impact

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Wednesday, 4th November 2020

  The imposition of the second national lockdown from tomorrow presents a series of problems for the book trade - but also one big, fat opportunity
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• Covid-19: the book trade out of joint

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Wednesday, 24th June 2020

  We've had some upheavals in our time, David Taylor writes, but none to match this
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• Rosamund de la Hey: what lockdown means for our business

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Tuesday, 26th May 2020

  Continuing our series, the Mainstreet Trading proprietor reports on how the independent shop has been faring amid the Covid-19 crisis
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• BA Conference president's address - the essential conversations

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Monday, 9th September 2019

  Nic Bottomley's speech to the Booksellers Association conference in Birmingham this morning
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• Questions for: Nic Bottomley

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Wednesday, 4th September 2019

  Ahead of the Booksellers Association conference next Sunday and Monday, BA president Nic Bottomley contributes to our Q&A series
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• Twenty years of Goldsboro Books – David Headley

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Monday, 17th June 2019

  How an indie focused on signed first editions carved out an enduring niche in the book trade, and helped start London's newest crime festival
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• Tagholm's Take - the news in books at 9 November 2018

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Friday, 9th November 2018

  Roger Tagholm, in association with the London Book Fair, on pointed comments in Sharjah, and other book trade news
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• Tim Waterstone - the great disrupter

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Monday, 11th June 2018

  Will Atkinson, who worked at Waterstones in the early days, recalls the heady era of the chain's expansion under his former boss, knighted in the Birthday Honours
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• Kindle at 10: the curious case of ebook pricing

  Opinion - Bookselling

  Tuesday, 21st November 2017

  Why Amazon may not be unhappy that ebook sales have reached a plateau
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