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This is a list of bookstore chains with brick-and-mortar locations. In the United Kingdom and many parts of the English speaking world, they are known as "Bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English , they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines.
Blackwell UK, also known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones. It was founded in 1879 by Benjamin Henry Blackwell, [ 4] after whom the chain is named, on Broad Street, Oxford. The brand now has a chain of 18 shops, and an accounts and library supply service.
Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading as Waterstones (formerly Waterstone's ), is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. [ 5] As of February 2014, it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. [ 5] An average-sized Waterstones shop sells a range of approximately ...
WHSmith. WH Smith PLC, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son ), is a British retailer, with headquarters in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery ...
Stationery. Calendars. Gifts & Bags. Website. www .dauntbooks .co .uk. Daunt Books is an independent chain of bookshops in England, founded in 1990 by James Daunt. It originally specialised in travel books. In 2010, it began publishing. James Daunt later became the managing director of Waterstones and the US bookstore chain Barnes & Noble .
AbeBooks ( / ˈeɪb.bʊks / AYB-buuks[ 1]) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries. Launched in 1996, it specialises in used, rare and out-of-print books. AbeBooks has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008.
Skoob Books originally (1979) started in Sicilian Arcade while Pooles Books was closing down, by staff from the Tottenham Court Road shop. Later they moved to a ground floor unit at the Brunswick Centre. Subsequently the shop moved to the basement of the centre in 2008. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Skoob Books opened their ground floor retail ...
e. Books in the United Kingdom have been studied from a variety of cultural, economic, political, and social angles since the formation of the Bibliographical Society in 1892 and since the History of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Books are understood as "written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn ...