Independent bookshops are the new churches: revered but empty
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Christopher Fowler – Ten Ugly Truths About Books
Covent Garden copyright-free bookshop in the NY Times
Mark Oddie, owner of Dover Bookshop on Earlham Street tells Hayward Cirker, owner of Dover Publications, that an entire bookshop of copyright-free images is a viable business. It has only taken 25 years to be proved wrong.
Slightly Foxed
A completely enchanting bookshop, Slightly Foxed (previously Gloucester Road Bookshop, owned by Graham Greene’s nephew) is an independent bookshop gem. Little square windows, breezy awning and a tiny and unintrusive bell over the door that alerts you to your entrance into a book tardis. Small but perfectly stocked and formed.
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