Featured article by local trader

Mark Thornton of Mostly Books in Stert Street has written a very detailed piece about the threats faced by independent booksellers which is featured on Shiny New Books, a new blog site for booklovers. Independent Booksellers Week is just over and Mostly Books has turned 8 years old but the challenges are very real…in a town lucky enough to have two bookshops we have to bear in mind the need to keep them supported if we don’t want to lose them. This applies to all of our independents but these guys are up against Amazon and the growth of reading by Kindle…

Read Mark’s article by clicking here