📚 30 years after Amazon sold its first book independent bookshops are stilll thriving tomjrowley says two factors help explain this renaissance ⤵️ 🦠 The pandemic 💻 Innovation
Tom Rowley recently opened Backstory, an independent bookshop in south-west London
The singer, Simeon Hammond Dallas, who stood with her guitar in an alcove between bookcases lit up for the evening with fairy lights, beamed. Watching all this from behind the counter, so did I. Watching the gig on Saturday night, I smiled as I recalled all of this. Here we all were, nearly 30 years after Amazon sold its first book, perched on cushions and blankets in a sold-out music night in a new independent bookshop, hearing words of all kinds come to life. It was a joyous, vital evening – and we even sold a few books.
that the number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland has hit a 10-year high. There are now well over a thousand, including 105 that have opened their doors since the Covid-19 pandemic began.– is one of them. Since none of the five booksellers, including me, had ever worked in a bookshop before, we planned to open last October with a “soft launch” to give us a few quiet weeks to get familiar with ordering systems and how to use the coffee machine. It was anything but.
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