`People are so happy we exist´: indie bookshops grow despite retail slump
(The Guardian Books News)

After decades of decline, the sector has recorded three years of expansion. Some of the newest booksellers explain how they´re bucking the book marketJames Ashmore admits that he and his wife Louise `had a good five minutes of just smelling all the books` when the stock arrived for their new independent bookshop, Read., in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.`It´s like when you get a book for Christmas, but we got 35 boxes which we cracked open. It was brilliant,` he says. `It was so tempting to just sit down and read them, but putting them on shelves was one of the best things. Books are so gorgeous to look at.`High street closures in 2019 Related: Unputdownable! The bookshops Amazon couldn`t kill Continue reading...