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The Bookseller celebrates 150 years of publishing this year, and to mark the milestone we are planning a range of activities during 2008.
The title was founded by Joseph Whitaker in 1858 as a "work primarily for the use of booksellers and publishers, furnishing them with a handy book of references". The 56-page first issue featured books by Macauley, Dickens and George Eliot, plus advertisements from Chambers, OUP, Hatchard, Macmillan and John Murray. The magazine began as a monthly and went weekly in 1909.
On 20th June, we will publish a special commemorative issue, featuring many of the highlights of the magazine since 1858, plus an in-depth look at the present state of the trade and its future prospects.
The magazine is also commissioning a major piece of consumer research, to discover attitudes among the public to books, reading, publishing and bookselling. More than 1,000 members of the public will be interviewed to provide a state of the nation view. Extracts from the report will appear in the magazine and in other formats over the year.