Recent official figures showed that more independent booksellers opened (81) than closed (72) over the course of 2007.
Booksellers opened stalls in railway stations — that is, for people who were about to have a few hours of leisure time.
"Source Booksellers opened just a few years ago, but it's thriving, with tons of readings and events ― probably because owner Janet Jones has been collecting and selling books since 1989.
The bookseller opened itself to acquisitions in August when it created a committee to "review strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company".
Kinokuniya and Microsoft announced an alliance in which the Japanese bookseller will open an online store that uses Microsoft's technology for the secure distribution of electronic books in Microsoft's Reader format.
A few miles down the road from where I live on the coast of Maine, a talented young bookseller named Lacy Simons recently opened a small bookshop called Hello Hello, and in her blog she wrote eloquently about her relationship to "everyone who comes in my store.
The rivalry between the country's two largest bookstore chains is popping up in Paramus, N.J., with the Borders Group, the No. 2 bookseller, soon to open a superstore that could draw customers from two nearby Barnes & Noble superstores.
Yellow-Lighted Bookshop 21 Church Street, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8JG, 01666 500221 Named after Lewis Buzbee's memoir of his days as a bookseller, the Yellow-Lighted Bookshop was opened by Hereward Corbett three years ago.
"WHEN circulating libraries were first opened," wrote Charles Knight in 1854, "the booksellers were much alarmed; and their rapid increase added to their fears, and led them to think that the sale of books would be much diminished by such libraries.
Jarrolds Book Department 5 London Street, Norwich, Norfolk NR2 1JF, 01603 660661 The Jarrolds department store first opened in the 1820s as a bookseller and lending library.
Tom Tivnan, features editor of the Bookseller, agreed that the readership for sagas had "opened up thanks to Call the Midwife", and was now appealing to "more, and younger, readers".
