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Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights is an independent bookshop based in John Street, Bath, Somerset. It was founded by former lawyer and derivatives trader Nic Bottomley [1] [2] and his wife, Juliette, also a lawyer. [3] In 2009, it was appointed as the official bookseller of the Bath Literary Festival. [4]
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Independent bookstores are small bookselling businesses, usually with one or a small number of locations in a limited geographic area. They contrast with corporate or chain bookstores, operated by a larger company, often with many stores across a large area.
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]
Specialty stores such as comic book shops tend to be independent. City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, 2010 Shakespeare and Company in Paris 2004. Author events at independent bookstores sometimes take the role of literary salons [2] and independents historically supported new authors and independent presses. [3]
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A meta-search site (online marketplace) for books, acquired by AbeBooks in 2005, which in turn was acquired by Amazon.com in 2008. Bookshop.org United States: Online only: An online book marketplace founded in January 2020. Its stated mission is "to financially support local, independent bookstores." Booktopia Australia: Online only
Ottakar's was also very popular with book buyers. A customer survey in 2004 revealed that many people believed that their local branch of Ottakar's was an independent bookshop. This was viewed as a vindication of the Ottakar's head office policy of giving branches as much local autonomy as possible.