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 invited to bring along a book you’ve enjoyed this year to...
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 they manage their own staff wellbeing. These visits have been recorded...
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 research. They have engaged with consumers and local organisations to research...
Insights from the Booksellers Association research into the Cultural and Community Value of Bookshops across the UK and Ireland
Drawing on reports from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, Howard Davies presents key findings, national contrasts, and policy recommendations to support and sustain bookshops’ vital local roles.
David Piovesan & The European Bookshop Business Model
Piovesan offers a compelling overview of how bookshops are navigating the challenges of the digital age.
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 within time-space is produced by that—sometimes happenstance, sometimes not—arrangement-in-relation-to-each-other that results...
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 Bookselling Conference 2026: Spaces of Bookselling
We welcome proposals that engage with all forms of the bookselling space—physical, virtual, historical, social, communal, commercial, and imagined—and encourage transcultural, transnational, and intersectional perspectives.
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.
Bookselling as Resistance?
A Conference Report by Carla Schäfer (University of Münster)
