Sheila Markham & Conversations with the Rare Book Trade
Sheila will share some of her findings from bookseller conversations covering a period from the early 1990s.
BYOB25: Books and spaces
Our final session of the year will be on Friday, 12th December, again at 2 pm on Teams — this will be our now traditional festive session, where you are […]
David Piovesan & The European Bookshop Business Model
Piovesan offers a compelling overview of how bookshops are navigating the challenges of the digital age.
From Margin to Market: The Growth of Queer Literature in the UK
Join Tom Owen as he discusses the research that led to the opening of Gay on Wye and shares his vision for the future of queer literature on the UK high street. Stocking LGBTQIA+ books isn’t about cashing in on the pink pound — it’s about offering stories that resonate deeply with readers and help build lasting community.
BRN Conference 2025: Bookselling as Resistance
Conference in Münster, Germany, combined with the annual meeting of the Bookselling Research Network (BRN).
Shai Feraro: Occult and New Age Spirituality Bookshops
his paper presents exploratory notes from my ongoing research project, which focuses on occult and New Age spirituality bookshops in Britain and aims to illuminate their function as hubs and arenas for the transference of knowledge and information within these respective milieus, c. 1893 - c.1993.
Michael Robb–author of Shelf Life
Shelf Life is a meticulously crafted exploration of bookselling and publishing that spans two millennia. This engaging narrative unveils the resilience and innovation of key figures who have shaped the literary landscape, from the pioneering days of William Caxton to the contemporary influence of Jeff Bezos.
Nina Stavisky on European Bookselling Courses
Bookselling seems to be an innate profession, after all we learn to read at school and to be a bookseller you have to love reading, don't you?
Across Europe, a number of bookselling schools, whether public or private, apprenticeship or university-based, for initial or continuing training, provide high-quality training for future booksellers, department managers or company directors.
What do they teach and how do they train the booksellers of tomorrow?
Anna Muenchrath: Just Browsing: Time and the Online Bookstore
Convenience and the saving of time are attractions of buying books online, particularly on Amazon, which advertises rapid delivery speeds at very low prices. Algorithms are designed to save time, […]
Mark Thornton from Bookshop.org
Mark Thornton, Senior Partnerships Manager for the UK side of Bookshop.org will be talking to us about the way this online platform is trying to support physical indie bookshops, and some of the connected bookish initiatives the B-Corp company has initiated.