RISE: Indistry Insights: Bookshops and Accessibility
Providing an overview of the current legislative framework and upcoming requirements for the book industry. The report is available here: Industry Insights – RISE Bookselling
RISE Study on Consumer Behaviour – Book-Buying Trends, Reading Habits & Customer Needs
RISE present the study “Consumer Behaviour – Book-Buying Trends, Reading Habits & Customer Needs”, produced through the European & International Booksellers Federation’s EU co-funded project, RISE Bookselling. By examining consumer behaviour in book-buying and reading habits, RISE aim to equip booksellers with...
RISE Insights: Bookshops, censorship and freedom of expression
The European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) have published their 5th RISE Industry research paper: Bookshops, censorship and Freedom of Expression. This Industry Insight reports on the impact that censorship and attempts to limit free speech through legislative action by local...
New BA Report on Cultural Value of Indies in England
The Booksellers Association has released a report on The Cultural Role and Value of England’s Independent Bookshops. It found that Indie bookshops have adapted creatively to challenges like online competition, urban decline, and the pandemic, fostering local culture through events and...
Bookshops are bucking the high street trend. There are lots of reasons why
Samantha Rayner, Professor of Publishing and Book Cultures at UCL and co-Director of the Bookselling Research Network, has published a piece in The Conversation on how bookshops are “bucking the high street trend”. Read the full story on the link below.
Champions of Literature by @GeorgethePoet
Written and performed exclusively for #IndieBookshopWeek “Champions of Literature” by @GeorgethePoet Filmed at New Beacon Books: https://www.newbeaconbooks.com/ Independent Bookshop Week takes place 15 – 22 June 2024. Find out more about the campaign: https://booksaremybag.com / booksaremybag https://x.com/booksaremybag / booksaremybag
Reviving the High Street report
Earlier this week, RISE Bookselling unveiled the campaign on 'Reviving the high street: Booksellers Call to Action', in response to the increasing challenges that booksellers and retailers working across European town centres and high streets are facing.
SHARP 2023-BRN Panel: The Bookshop as Interface
Bookshops operate as more than just spaces where the commercial retail of books occurs. They are places of ideas, which encourage us to venture beyond our own experiences and expand imaginative and intellectual horizons. Indeed, as Martin Latham has claimed, bookshops do this even more successfully than universities: “it seems, indeed, such institutionalized thinking is less likely to be mould-breaking; whereas a bookshop, used open-mindedly enough, uniquely challenges the normative thinking which dulls our reason and clouds our souls (The Bookseller’s Tale, p. 305). This panel looks at some ways the interface of the bookshop has fostered, or is fostering, new ideas, whether in fictionalised accounts of bookshops or histories of actual ones.
RISE Industry Insights research paper Culture Vouchers
RISE Bookselling (Resilience, Innovation and Sustainability for the Enhancement of Bookselling) have now published the second volume of their Industry Insights series, which examines state-funded cultural voucher schemes currently in place in four different countries across Europe—France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The schemes are launched with the aim of introducing teenagers and young adults to their country’s unique and rich cultural scene, while also supporting cultural and creative industries in the process. You can download a free copy here: https://bit.ly/RISE2023-2.
Bookshops: Online and On the High Street
The 2nd Annual Bookselling Research Network Conference, in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing When: 3rd-4th July 2023Where: University of ReadingCFP Deadline: Extended to 15 March Jeff Deutsch, in his recent In Praise of Good Bookstores, reflected that because...
