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Since launch, the site has generated more than $33 million for local stores. In 2023, Bookshop.org replaced IndieBound as the American Booksellers Association's official platform for supporting independent, local bookstores when linking to books online. [4] As of 2023, Bookshop.org's booksales were about 1% of Amazon's, according to Hunter. [2]
In April 1996, the name of the company was changed to The Internet Bookshop (Oxford) Limited. [2] In February 1997, the company was transferred to a new holding company called bookshop.co.uk PLC which was floated on the OFEX market, raising £1 million. For the year 1997 turnover was £2.1M, up from £0.6M the year before, and a loss of £0.4M ...
Waterstones also owns Hodges Figgis (the oldest bookshop in Ireland, founded in 1768), [10] Hatchards (the oldest bookshop in the UK, founded in 1797), [11] and Foyles (a chain of seven bookshops in England). [12] In April 2018, hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation bought a majority stake in the company.
Blackwell UK, also known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones. It was founded in 1879 by Benjamin Henry Blackwell, [4] after whom the chain is named, on Broad Street, Oxford. The brand now has a chain of 18 shops, and an accounts and library supply service.
News From Nowhere is a bookshop in Liverpool, UK. Founded in 1974, it is a not-for-profit bookstore and since the early 1980s has been run as a women's co-operative. [1] [2] It is named for the 1890 utopian socialist novel by William Morris. [3] Since 1989, the bookstore has been based on Liverpool's Bold Street. [4]
Oxfam bookshop on Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Oxfam is the largest retailer of second-hand books in Europe, selling around 12 million per year. Most of Oxfam's 600 charity shops around the UK sell books, and around 100 are specialist bookshops or book and music shops.
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