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Sixty-eight small presses will be descending on Central London's Conway Hall in the second week of November, for the 17th edition of the Small Publishers' Fair.

With the largest number of exhibitors in the event's history, the fair will showcase books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. Two-thirds of the exhibiting publishers will be travelling to London from bases as far flung as Amsterdam (Boekie Woekie), Berlin (Red Sphinx), Tokyo (Yasushi Cho / Laughter) and Venice (Damocle Edizioni). Participating UK publishers include Hoxton Mini Press, ottoGraphic, Test Centre, Shearsman Books and CB Editions.

Participation is by invitation, and programming is a "careful balancing act" in terms of geography, types of press, and blending new faces and previous participants, says organiser Helen Mitchell.

"It is important that the Small Publishers' Fair has many publishers from outside London", she added. "The fair has always been about bringing great small publishers to London from across the UK and further afield."

She added: "In the years since the first fair in 2002, many similar events have come on the scene-a good few are in London, meaning that London publishers have a good range of options for getting their work out there. The Small Publishers' Fair's focus on two-thirds of exhibitors coming from beyond London brings new faces for the city's audiences to discover and draws visitors to the capital for the fair to see this showcase of some of the best of this thriving sector."

The fair is distinctive for the quality and range of work on show, which includes artists' books, fine press editions, zines, poetry pamphlets and postcards. Many of these works are usually only available to purchase online.

The fair is also an important meeting ground for the publishers themselves, many of which often attend the fair even if they are not exhibiting. "Many new projects have their beginnings from conversations held at the fair," said Mitchell.

The first fair, in 2002, took place at the Southbank's Royal Festival Hall. The following year, it moved to Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, which is described as a "landmark of London's independent intellectual, political and cultural life". Mitchell says "it's a natural home for the Small Publishers' Fair".

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Sixty-eight small presses will be descending on Central London's Conway Hall in the second week of November, for the 17th edition of the Small Publishers' Fair. With the largest number of exhibitors in the event's history, the fair will showcase books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers.

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② Book design
③ Typography
④ Identity
⑤ Art direction

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Selected Clients + Collaborations:

Nike, Zeit Verlag, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Hamburger Bahnhof, Apple, Calvin Klein, Sony Music, Vice, Virtue, Wieden + Kennedy, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Anomaly, Coca Cola, Iconoclast, McCann Erickson, Flaneur Magazine, GAK Bremer Kunstverein, We Folk, Grindr, Dropbox, Sleek, Raumlabor Berlin, Deutsches Tanzarchiv, Matt Lambert, Ewen Spencer, Kehrer Verlag, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Amnesty International, Technische Universität Berlin

Awards:

Stack Awards, Art Director of the Year (2019) Magazine of the Year (2019), Finnish Photobook Award (2017); Stack Awards (2017); D&AD Wooden Pencil (2016); German Design Award, Nomination (2016); Lead Awards, Newcomer, Bronze (2014); D&AD Slice, Entire Magazine (2014); ADC Germany, Distinction (2014); Type Directors Club, New York, Award for Typographic Excellence (2014)

Talks & Workshops:

OFFF Vienna; Ten To Six Workshop, FH Bielefeld University; OFFF Barcelona; Indiecon, Hamburg; Design vs Music, Tromsø; QVED - International Editorial Design Conference, Munich; Magazine Design Conference, Copenhagen (Danmark Medie - OG Journalisthojskole); IGM, Oslo; Designers Open, Leipzig; GLUG Berlin

Selected Press

It's Nice That - Ones To Watch (2018), AIGA Eye for Design (2018), Monocle (2018), It's Nice That (2017), Metal (2017), AIGA Eye for Design (2017), It's Nice That (2016), MagCulture (2016), Dazed (2016), iD-Magazine (2016), MagCulture (2016), Etapes (2016), AIGA Eye for Design (2015), It's Nice That (2015), Start Me Up, Gestalten (2015), Computer Arts Magazine (2015), It's Nice That (2015), Creative Review (2014), IdN (2014), Novum (2014), It's Nice That (2014), Grafik (2014), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2013)

Contact:

Berlin office:

Studio Yukiko
Conrad + Phillips GbR
Körnerstraße 19
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten

Jobs:

For freelance positions:
apply@y-u-k-i-k-o.com

Internship:

Apply with work samples to
work-it@y-u-k-i-k-o.com

Legal & Imprint:

to be found here

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We are under construction. As our project and team evolve, a new website is required to accurately represent the state of our practice. We're taking this time to reflect on ourselves and develop an online experience that feels right for us.

FISK has been an ever-evolving creative project with humble beginnings as a student collective founded at CalArts in 2009. We've come a long way since then. After migrating in and out of Los Angeles we landed in Portland, Oregon-calling it home for 6 years and counting. We operate FISK primarily as a graphic design studio, but it's also a community hub, a contemporary art gallery and a cultural instigator at large. We're design focused generalists with little distinction between art and commerce. Our clients help us stay contemporary because they value curiosity and culture the way we do.

For the last 6 years FISK operated as a split personality of a design studio and art gallery with a focus on product collaboration. But on the morning of our 10th anniversary we woke up and had a big, existential, realization. What we had categorized as separate practices were actually just one amorphous project spilling and mixing into itself-the design studio is the gallery, the gallery is the studio. Without barriers, we are now one giant oval canvas for all of our thoughts and ideas. See you soon!

Love,

Offline

3613 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. Portland, OR 97212 U.S.A.

Clients

Alicia Keys Nike Madhappy Toro y Moi Clairo Google JOON Cult Classic Future Fonts Raveena Stones Throw Fader Atmos Reverie

Services

Graphic Design Print Layout Packaging Motion Graphics Web Design Web Development Apparel Design 3D Type Design Copywriting AR Filter

Album Covers

Alicia Keys Porches Aluna Jelani Aryeh Toro y Moi Clairo Reveena The Jungle Giants Dolphin Midwives Lau Nau Benoit Pioulard

Free Lunch Interns

Youting Lin (SU20) Huicheng Wu (SU19) Hui Yeon Hwang (SU18) Peter Dolezilek (HO17) Jun Ki Hong (SU17) James Casey (SU16)

Past Locations

1017 SW Morrison St. Portland, OR 1805 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 3636B N Mississippi Ave. Portland, OR 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, CA

We are under construction. As our project and team evolve, a new website is required to accurately represent the state of our practice. We're taking this time to reflect on ourselves and develop an online experience that feels right for us.

FISK has been an ever-evolving creative project with humble beginnings as a student collective founded at CalArts in 2009. We've come a long way since then. After migrating in and out of Los Angeles we landed in Portland, Oregon-calling it home for 6 years and counting. We operate FISK primarily as a graphic design studio, but it's also a community hub, a contemporary art gallery and a cultural instigator at large. We're design focused generalists with little distinction between art and commerce. Our clients help us stay contemporary because they value curiosity and culture the way we do.

For the last 6 years FISK operated as a split personality of a design studio and art gallery with a focus on product collaboration. But on the morning of our 10th anniversary we woke up and had a big, existential, realization. What we had categorized as separate practices were actually just one amorphous project spilling and mixing into itself-the design studio is the gallery, the gallery is the studio. Without barriers, we are now one giant oval canvas for all of our thoughts and ideas. See you soon!

With Love,

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The first edition of the festival dedicated to urban music took place on May 18 & 19, 2019 on the esplanade of the Olympic Park in Montreal. The line up included renowned artists such as Cardi B, Future, Snoop Dogg, Sean Paul, A $ AP Ferg, Juice Wrld and Tyga. It's already making it the largest urban music festival in Canada. We have established the complete visual identity of the festival.

La première édition du festival consacré à la musique urbaine s'est déroulée les 18 & 19 mai 2019 sur l'esplanade du Parc Olympique de Montréal. La programmation comprend des artistes de renom tels que Cardi B, Future, Snoop Dogg, Sean Paul ou encore A$AP Ferg, Juice Wrld et Tyga. Cela en fait déjà le plus grand festival de musique urbaine au Canada. Nous avons établi l'identité visuelle complète du festival.

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La première édition du festival Metro Metro consacré à la musique urbaine s'est déroulée les 18 & 19 mai 2019 sur l'esplanade du ParcOlympique de Montréal. La programmation comprend des artistes de renom tels que Cardi B, Future, Snoop Dogg,Sean Paul ou...

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On May 18-19, Chicago Zine Fest will present its 9th annual celebration of independent publishers in the Chicago area. Highlights of the two-day festival include a panel discussion and readings on Friday, May 18 and an exhibition day featuring more than 250 exhibitors and interactive workshops on Saturday, May 19. New for this year, CZF will debut a youth area geared toward the next generation of zinemakers.

All events during CZF weekend are always FREE, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public! CZF 2018 will take place over two days: Friday, May 18th for a panel discussion & exhibitor reading, and Saturday, May 19th for our main exhibition. There's also a ticketed pre-event (a zine library collection tour at DePaul) and an exhibition day after party!

DePaul Zine Collection Tour
6:30-8:00 p.m.
The John T. Richardson Library @ DePaul University
2350 N. Kenmore Avenue, Rm. 417 (4th floor)

Note: this is a free event, however space is limited and all our our spots on EventBrite ticketing have been spoken for. We are hoping to do another tour with DePaul and would love to hear from you if you're interested!

We're kicking off #CZF2018 with a special pre-fest event! Take a tour of the extensive zine collection that is part of DePaul University Special Collections and Archives. We'll have the opportunity to peruse a selection of zines from this academic collection and talk with librarians who work with the archive.

Panel discussion & exhibitor reading
6:30-9:30 p.m.
at the Institute of Cultural Affairs, 4750 N. Sheridan Road

. 6:30 - 7:30pm Panel Discussion On Speaking Terms: Zines, Librarians and Communities, sponsored by the University of Chicago Library
This panel discussion features local zinester and Chicago Public Library employee Oscar Arriola, Doro of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's zine collection, and Milo from Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP), and will be moderated by the University of Chicago's zine archivist, Sarah G. Wenzel. The panelists will discuss how librarians and archivists acquire zines and why, how they shape their collections, the decisions they make every day, and ways that they share zines on ordinary days and through special events. A Q&A will follow.

8:00-9:30pm Exhibitor Readings
Zine creators exhibiting at this year's festival will share stories and comics as entertaining as they are moving. Our readers for this year are Zach Auburn, Shira Mario, Megan M. Metzger, Ariel Chan, Marian Runk, Katie Armentrout, and Cathy Hannah.

Workshop Schedule

Balcony Programming

Other Fun Stuff at the Fest

Reading Room/Introverts' Zine Swap
Take a break from the fest to read some zines, check out our poster wall showcasing art from other zine fests, and relax in the zine lounge. If you'd like to participate in our Introverts' Zine Swap, leave a copy of your zine in the lounge, and feel free to take a zine left by someone else. Sponsored by University of Chicago Library.

Tables featuring youth organizations and performers from our youth readings. Youth organizations include: 826CHI, Chicago Public Library / YOUmedia, Lane Tech Zine Club, Ag47 Collective, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pathways in Education - Ashburn, and The Students of Gallery 37. Located on the first floor directly outside of the workshop room

And More!
There will be a photo booth by Glitter Guts, coffee by Colectivo Coffee, a hair styling station by Haircuts for Change, food trucks, a bake sale, and more! Also onsite will be the Read/Write Library's BiblioTreka mobile bike library and Chicago Books to Women in Prison.

Have a drink, sing a song, after a long day of zine buying, selling and trading. Entertainment by Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago . $6 - 7:30pm - No BYOB - Proceeds benefit CHI PRC. Come early as event ends by midnight. PRK has an extensive song list of classic punk tunes so don't miss this one! RSVP on Facebook!

Event flyer by Miguel Centeno.

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CZF 2018 Artwork

Our CZF 2018 artwork was created by Chicago artist Yewon Kwon! Yewon is a printmaker, sculptor, comics artist, and self-publisher currently residing in Chicago. Yewon is a member of the comix collective xeroxcandybar, and they also curate, edit, and publish the collective publication series PALLOR PINK. You can see more of Yewon's work on their website: litlslaywon.com and their Instagram: @litlslaywon.

Friends of CZF 2018
Hamburger Mary's, Honey Brown, Graham Crackers Comics, Challengers Comics + Conversation, Women & Children First Bookstore, Open Books, Alan Epstein, Unabridged Bookstore, Josh Pettinger, The Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Sage Coffey, Cafe Mustache, Stranger Danger, Bred Press, DePaul Special Collections and Archives, Lindsey Faloona, Georgia Greenberg, Kathleen Gullion, Chicago Bagel Authority, Jane Serenska, Mike Centeno

Sponsors of the 2018
Chicago Publishers Resource Center (CHIPRC), InoPrints, Perfectly Acceptable Press, Quimby's Bookstore, Replica Chicago (REP CHI), The University of Chicago Library, and Uptown United.

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Balloons became a central visual motif, which were combined with various objects that represent a five-year-old's birthday party. Illustrations of birthday badges, jelly, party horns, paper hats, streamers and more formed the basis of the identity's artwork and became vehicles for sharing information, like announcing speakers.

These were also activated physically at the event. The programme guide was designed like a birthday card, the festival was adorned with balloons, guests received 'party' tote bags, streamers were popped to celebrate the launch, and a balloon artist even worked his magic in the identity's colour palette for those attending.

With such a playful concept, a palette of black, grey, white and silver offered a more serious and refined aesthetic that contrasted throughout the identity.

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Balloons became a central visual motif, which were combined with various objects that represent a five-year-old's birthday party. Illustrations of birthday badges, jelly, party horns, paper hats, streamers and more formed the basis of the identity's artwork and became vehicles for sharing information, like announcing speakers. These were also activated physically at the event.

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A new website for independent bookshops is just what the industry needs

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A new website for independent bookshops is just what the industry needs

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Good news from the high street. We don't often read those words, least of all courtesy of the internet. The UK opening on Monday of the Bookshop website is a blood transfusion for independent bookshops and one from which all retailers can learn. The website is a mail-order circumvention of Amazon, selling books under the flags of more than 130 independent booksellers. Buyers order their book at a slightly discounted price after "entering" their chosen front door on the site and the shop duly receives the 30% bookseller's margin.

The US version of Bookshop was launched in January by Andy Hunter, the co-founder of Literary Hub. It has 900 shops signed up and has tripled sales each month since then. It has given an estimated $7.5m already this year to its bookseller members. Buyers clearly forego the 30% or so Amazon discount but they know that the price is what they would pay in a real store.

The death of the bookshop has been forecast for generations. Apocalypse loomed as a result of public libraries, paperbacks, WH Smith, Amazon, ebooks, business rates and high street decline. Yet the news is good. Book sales are at an all-time high. Last year they were up 20% from five years previously, with only modern fiction down. More significantly, last year the number of independent bookshops actually rose for the third year running. Coronavirus is a menace, but the publisher Bloomsbury had predicted it would mean sales by falling 75%, whereas by July they had risen 9%. Books and bookshops are clearly retail therapy. Booksellers may be like farmers and publicans and much given to moaning, but they refuse to die.
'Regeneration' is too often an unfair fight between local people and global finance | Anna Minton
The message is that high streets will not beat digital and must join it. Online and doorstep service can deliver a product but not the experience of choosing it. High streets are about walking, meeting, talking, drinking and being entertained. One of my bookseller acquaintances has broadened into author events, becoming a local impresario who sells books on the side. Others have diversified into everything from toys and cookery classes to book clubs and coffee.

The clear message of Bookshop is that the pleasure of buying a book is not wholly satisfied by a tick in a box and a van at the door. It embraces a ritual, a visit to a temple of literature, an inhaling of bookishness, a survey of titles, a picking up, a handling, a browsing, a pausing to ponder, a chat with an assistant. A bookshop is part church, part club. People still want their books "live".

High streets are facing undoubted disaster, exacerbated by the government's savage decision to close "non-essential" shops. This will decimate the retail economy. Bookshop shows how at least some shops can make peace with the digital revolution. Other retailers should take note.

* Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
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ood news from the high street. We don't often read those words, least of all courtesy of the internet. The UK opening on Monday of the Bookshop website is a blood transfusion for independent bookshops and one from which all retailers can learn.

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Indie bookshop BooksActually to close physical store, move entirely online

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Indie bookshop BooksActually to close physical store, move entirely online

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Independent bookshop BooksActually will be closing its Yong Siak Street store and moving entirely online.

The shop, which turns 15 this year, shut its brick-and-mortar store this year during the circuit breaker period and has not reopened its doors since. At midnight on Sunday, owner Kenny Leck announced that it would go fully online instead.

Leck, 41, wrote on Facebook: "It is a new beginning for all of us... As horrible as the pandemic has been, it has also given BooksActually its 'Online Store Sea Legs'. After nearly half a year of being solely an online store, we are now ready to make it a reality."

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He told The Straits Times that the webstore, which was expanded during the circuit breaker, is doing better than the physical store by about 10 to 20 percent.

"We have more work ahead," he added, citing his ongoing push to convert the titles of BooksActually's publishing imprint Math Paper Press into hardback editions by the end of the year.

Leck opened BooksActually in 2005 with then co-owner Karen Wai on the second floor of a Telok Ayer shophouse.

In 2009, he sold a three-room HDB flat left to him by his late mother and used the proceeds to set up a second bookstore at Club Street, which did not pan out.

The bookstore moved to its current location in Tiong Bahru in 2011, where it grew into the quaint literary haven that it is today, with its shelves of vintage knick-knacks, mystery book vending machine and three beloved cats, Cake, Pico and Lemon.

Leck often wrangled with rising rents and once dreamed that BooksActually would be the first bookshop in Singapore to own its own building, to which end he had started a fundraising campaign to raise $2 million for a permanent space.

COVID-19 has put paid to that dream for now, but he said that he plans to continue organizing literary happenings when Singapore enters Phase 3 of recovery, and that events it is known for hosting, such as the annual #BuySingLit street party, 24-Hour Bookstore and The World's Loneliest Bookstore pop-up, will return.

"Regardless of the uncertainties or vulnerabilities this year of change has imposed on all of us, one thing we know for sure is that the bookstore will be here for a very long time," he wrote on Facebook.

"Or at least where I am concerned, I am very certain that she, BooksActually, will continue to be your 'neighborhood' bookstore long after I am gone."

This article appeared on The Straits Times newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post

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Indie bookshop BooksActually to close physical store, move entirely online

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Independent bookshop BooksActually will be closing its Yong Siak Street store and moving entirely online. The shop, which turns 15 this year, shut its brick-and-mortar store this year during the circuit breaker period and has not reopened its doors since. At midnight on Sunday, owner Kenny Leck announced that it would go fully online instead.

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Brixton’s Bookmongers book shop launches ‘click and collect’ online store

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Bookmongers - Brixton's legendary independent bookshop selling second-hand and remaindered books since 1992 - has today launched a website where customers can buy books online and then collect them from the shop.

The Coldharbour Lane business has been forced to close its temporary doors due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, but the new website offers locals a selection of books for purchasing on a 'click & collect' basis.

They say:

Payment can be made securely using PayPal or Visa and your books can then be collected from the shop between 3PM and 6PM, seven days a week - as soon as you receive an email notifying you that your order is ready.

We'll also be regularly posting here - and on our Instagram page - a small selection of 'Secondhand Gems' also available for click and collect...but if you're looking for a particular secondhand book, please get in touch and we'll see if we have it in the shop.

We're not currently sending out orders by post, but we're flexible... Please email or give us a call.

Click here to view the website
More info

BOOKMONGERS
439 Coldharbour Lane
Brixton SW9 8LN
info@bookmongers.com
Tel: 020 7738 4225

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Bookmongers - Brixton's legendary independent bookshop selling second-hand and remaindered books since 1992 - has today launched a website where customers can buy books online and then collect them from the shop. The Coldharbour Lane business has been forced to close its temporary doors due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, but the new website offers locals a selection of books for purchasing on a 'click & collect' basis.

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Independent bookshops join forces to rival Amazon

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INDEPENDENT bookshops have joined forces to back the launch of a new online retailer taking on Amazon in the run-up to Christmas.

More than 150 UK bookshops have signed up to serve customers through Bookshop.org, an online platform billing itself as an alternative to Amazon for "socially conscious online shoppers".

The site, which launches in the UK on Monday, launched in the US in January and rapidly grew in the face of the pandemic, raising 7.5 million dollars (£5.8 million) for independent US bookshops.

The platform said it works as a marketplace for independent stores, ensuring they receive the full profit margin (30% of the cover price) from each sale.

Books are offered to consumers at a small discount and delivered within two to three days, it said.

It comes as high street retailers face local restrictions - including the complete lockdown of bookshops in Ireland and Wales - which could hamper trade ahead of Christmas.

Nevertheless, demand for books has been strong throughout lockdown, with publisher Bloomsbury reporting its highest profits for 12 years last month as people sought reading material to keep them occupied during lockdown.

Bookshop.org founder and chief executive Andy Hunter said: "Bookshops are essential to a healthy culture, and online sales are vital to safeguarding their future.

"Covid-19 has added further urgency to the need for bookshops to compete for online sales."

The UK operation has been launched by former Etsy international boss Nicole Vanderbilt.

She said: "At a time when Amazon has enjoyed even greater advantage over high street competitors as a result of the pandemic, Bookshop.org offers a socially conscious alternative to customers wishing to shop online, while supporting bookshops in competing in an ecommerce environment.

"We're delighted to be launching in the UK and look forward to working with bookshops, publishers, authors and beyond across the UK, while offering customers an entirely new online shopping experience."

The platform said bookshop owners have been positive about its UK launch, and it expects to have 200 retail partners by the end of the year.

Andy Rossiter of Rossiter Books in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, said: "Being an independent bookseller has for so many years been such a David v Goliath battle that it feels slightly disconcerting when someone at last hands you a bazooka instead of you peppering away with your slingshot."

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INDEPENDENT bookshops have joined forces to back the launch of a new online retailer taking on Amazon in the run-up to Christmas. More than 150 UK bookshops have signed up to serve customers through Bookshop.org, an online platform billing itself as an alternative to Amazon for "socially conscious online shoppers".

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Now the guilt we feel at passing over our favourite independent bookshop can soon be assuaged.

Described as a 'revolutionary moment in the history of bookselling', Bookshop.org has now gone online this week in partnership with over 130 shops.

The site has accelerated its UK plans after launching in the US with great success earlier this year.

What is Bookshop.org?

Bookshop.org is a socially conscious alternative to Amazon. The revolutionary site allows readers to purchase their books online, all while still supporting their local indie booksellers.

Independent bookshops can create their own virtual shopfronts on the site. The stores receive the full 30% of the cover price profit margin from each sale made.

And whilst this lends the site a more independent and personal feel, it also streamlines the process for the indies. Bookshop and its distributor partners handle shipping and customer service. Titles are delivered within 2-3 days and are offered at a small discount.

Whose idea was it?

Bookshop is the creation of Andy Hunter, writer and co-founder of Literary Hub. And the speed with which his idea has taken off in the US since January and now launched in the UK is somewhat mind-blowing.

He has reportedly told The Guardian, "It's been a wild ride," adding that, "five weeks into what we thought was going to be a six-month period of refining and improving and making small changes, Covid-19 hit and then suddenly we were doing massive business."

Now the site has more than 900 stores signed up to it in the US, compared to the still impressive 250 bookshops at first.

"We went from selling $50,000 (£38,000) worth of books in all of February, to selling $50,000 a day in March, then $150,000 a day in April," Hunter added.

Amazon vs Indies

Speaking about the dominance of Amazon over online book sales, Hunter stated that, "Bookstores have been in trouble for a while because of Amazon's growth". He went on to say how the pandemic has accelerated this.

He remarked upon how Amazon has become more powerful. Meanwhile, independent bookshops that have been established for decades are "hanging on for survival".

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However, it is this which Hunter suggested was the cause of Bookshop's popularity. "I think we were so successful because enough people were conscious of that, and wanted to rally around around their beloved bookstores," he said. He added that "they care about the world that we emerge from this pandemic into."

Originally the UK launch was planned for 2021 or 2022 after the initial US launch in January 2020. But the great success and rapid growth of the platform inspired UK shops, publishers and authors to request it sooner. Hunter also acknowledged that they "scrambled all hands on desk to get it up" in time for the Christmas gift-buying rush where shoppers could support their local stores.

Having only launched on 2 November, more than 130 British bookshops are already signed up. 200 more are expected by the end of 2020.

How did the UK book industry react?

British booksellers and publishers have welcomed the launch with open arms. Philip Gwyn Jones, publisher at Picador, has described Bookshop as "a positively revolutionary moment in the history of bookselling in the UK".

Meanwhile several indie bookshop owners including Georgia Eckhert, whose Imagined Things bookshop is in Harrogate, said, "it's nice that Bookshop.org is going to rival Amazon in a way we couldn't on our own or even collectively."

So when you're looking for your next big read or even a present for a loved one, it seems that Bookshop.org is definitely the way to go.

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