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August 28, 2025

Queer bookstore to hold LGBTQ+ ‘Wedding Marathon’

A queer-owned bookstore, All She Wrote Books in Somerville, Massachusetts, plans to hold an LGBTQ+…

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Bookshops News

June 30, 2025

Is Amazon Burying LGBTQ+ Books? A Look at Algorithmic Suppression

The Invisible Shelf: Why LGBTQ+ Books Are Harder to Find on Amazon If you've ever…

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Bookshops News

September 29, 2024

Bookshop.org launches a second-hand buy-back scheme

Bookshop.org, an online retailer which supports independent bookshops through profit sharing, has launched a second-hand…

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Bookshops News

January 3, 2022

Amazon Under Fire for Sale of Modern Novel Sold as a ‘Classic’

Amazon have been accused of letting third-party sellers falsely labelling books as classics to sell…

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Bookshops News

November 22, 2021

400,000 books destroyed in fire including book signed by Queen Victoria

A fire has destroyed over 400,000 books including one signed by Queen Victoria. The ruined…

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Bookshops News

June 16, 2021

Mystery book lover gives £100 of vouchers to book store customers

A mystery book-lover has given £100 customers in a generous 'pay-it-forward' moment at a UK…

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Authors Bookshops News

May 21, 2021

Irvine Welsh thinks we should all shoplift books, and here’s why he’s wrong!

One of the team spotted a section of a newspaper article this week, by Trainspotting…

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Bookshops News

February 24, 2021

Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Bookshop

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a poet, publisher, painter and political activist who co-founded City Lights Bookshop,…

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Bookshops News

February 18, 2021

Tributes pour in for Gay’s the Word Bookshop Founder, Peter Dorey

Tributes are pouring in across the literary, and LGBTQ+ world at the news that pioneering…

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Bookshops Literature News

February 8, 2021

Scottish bookstore finds century old Jane Austen book in storage

A 110-year-old Jane Austen novel has been discovered in a bookshop in Inverness, Scotland. Bookshop…

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