Booksellers blighted by the snowy weather are looking to Easter promotions to boost their bottom lines.

Book sales were up by 1.2% to £22.1m last week according to Nielsen BookScan, but many shops were down after being hit by heavy snow and retreating customer numbers in the adverse weather, unprecedented for this time of year...

The Bolingbroke Bookshop in London is in discussions to become a community enterprise, the latest in a recent trend of bookshops looking to the alternative model.

Michael Gibbs' shop in Wandsworth, London, has been trading for 31 years but announced it would close this April after he couldn't keep up with rising business rate...

French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti has unveiled part of the government’s plan to shore up independent booksellers, despite earlier fears that she would be unable to commit any money because of France’s huge budget deficit.

She announced that a fund of €5m would be created for loans to booksellers with...

The crucial role of physical bookshops to a healthy publishing industry was underlined this week by findings from both Bowker Market Research UK and research company Enders Analysis.

Jo Henry, BMR director, gauged the value bookshops bring to the industry through promoting discoverability at approximately £450m last year, as...