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  2. Bookstore tourism - Wikipedia

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    Inside the Voltaire & Rousseau bookshop in Glasgow. Bookstore tourism is a type of cultural tourism that promotes independent bookstores as a group travel destination. It started as a grassroots effort to support locally owned and operated bookshops, many of which have struggled to compete with large bookstore chains and online retailers.

  3. John Smith & Son - Wikipedia

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    John Smith & Son is a United Kingdom academic bookseller, based in Ringwood.. Founded in 1751, it is the oldest bookselling company in the English-speaking world. [1] [2] It was based for many years at 57–61 St. Vincent Street in Glasgow, which was also its principal retail outlet.

  4. List of LGBT bookstores - Wikipedia

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    The Portal Bookshop: 2019 [72] Birmingham: Proud Geek [73] 2020 [74] Leeds: The Bookish Type: 2020 [75] Manchester: Queer Lit: 2021 [76] Manchester: Gay Pride Shop 2014 Darlington: The Queerish Bookshop 2023 Durham: Bookwyrm 2022 Scotland: Edinburgh: Lavender Menace Bookshop [77] Now also an archive 1982 [78] Lighthouse [79] 2017 [80] Glasgow ...

  5. Category Is Books - Wikipedia

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    Category Is Books was launched with help from Gay's The Word, the first and only remaining LGBT+ bookshop in London. [3] The shop hosted many queer community events and a non-drinking space for the LGBT+ community. They host events such as yoga, queer tarot [2] readings, and a transgender-friendly pop-up barbershop. [3] [4]

  6. Book town - Wikipedia

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    Hay Castle bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, with other bookshops on the road behind. A book town is a town or village with many used book or antiquarian bookstores. These stores, as well as literary festivals, attract bibliophile tourists. Some book towns are members of the International Organisation of Book Towns. [1]

  7. List of festivals in Glasgow - Wikipedia

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    Glasgow Festivals include festivals for art, film, comedy, folk music and jazz. Glasgow also hosts an annual queer arts festival in November.. Unlike the Edinburgh Festival (where the main festival and fringe festivals all occur around about the same time in August), Glasgow's festivals are spread evenly across the year, therefore ensuring a continuous annual programme of events.

  8. Dillons the Bookstore - Wikipedia

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    When it opened in 1956, Dillon's University Bookshop only occupied the small part of the building at 1 Malet St, and in its first year saw turnover of £30,000. [5] Una Dillon retired as managing director of the business in 1967 – by which time the shop occupied the entire building and had an annual turnover of over £1m – but she remained ...

  9. Glasgow - Wikipedia

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    Glasgow [a] is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland. [5] The city is the third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom [6] and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe. [7] The city comprises 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within City of Glasgow Council.

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