Sentence examples for bookshops opened from inspiring English sources

Bookshops opened their doors early today for readers to get their hands on JK Rowling's first novel for adults.

The new service arrived in the same week that the online retailer, which has been blamed for the demise of bookshops, opened its own high street bookstore in Seattle.

Last year, 50 new independent bookshops opened across the UK but 72 closed, confirming an overall decline for the third year running.

For the retirement Rebus, there will not have been bookshops opening at midnight and lines of excited readers dressed as overweight, near-alcoholic, smoking Scottish cops but such fuss would have been justified.

Only one other bookshop opened here, and now it is gone.

A bookshop opened for the first time in nearly two decades.

This popular bookshop opened at the height of Spain's financial crisis, in a disused button factory just off Carrer del Parlament, which Carrión says is "the most hipster street in Barcelona".

Photograph: Devid Levene When the London Review Bookshop opened in 2003, many people questioned the wisdom ("Are you completely mad?") of opening an independent bookshop at a time when they seemed to be folding at the rate of one a week.

Last year we rounded up some of the world's most weird and wonderful bookshops – from a bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students – but here's a selection of favourite bookshops from our readers, together with our own picks.

Fiona Beckett This legendary bookshop opened in 1979 and is still a distinctive, exciting place, stocking an ever-changing blend of fiction and non-fiction – perfect for that unexpected novel or history book that could not be chanced on browsing the web.

The concession, named The Russian Bookshop, opened in March 2012.