• BA research into the Cultural and Community Value of Bookshops

    It has long been the contention of the Booksellers Association (UK and Ireland) that its members – chains and indies – play an outsize role in enriching the cultural lives of their communities.

  • StoryBrand, conversations with pioneering booksellers

    As a form of qualitative research and learning, StoryBrand, conversations with pioneering booksellers is an hour-long conversation with people who have deep and diverse perspectives on the art and science […]

  • The Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops

    The Booksellers Association launched a new research report on ‘The Cultural and Community Role of Scotland’s Bookshops’ on 19th November, to coincide with Scottish Book Trust’s annual Book Week Scotland. The […]

  • Samantha Rayner’s Bookshop Bulletins

    Bookshop Bulletins: Gatherings Substack This year, Samantha has been on sabbatical, visiting some of the UK’s indie bookshops, and gathering information about how they work within their communities, and how […]

  • KVB Boekwerk: The importance of bookshops according to consumers

    In 2019, KVB Boekwerk published the results of a survey into the current added value of bookshops for customers and local areas. This year, they are following up on that […]

  • CFP: BRN Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling

    Bangor University | 9–11 September 2026In association with the Stephen Colclough Centre for the History and Culture of the Book “For such a space entails the unexpected. The specifically spatial […]