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  2. List of bookstore chains - Wikipedia

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    Books-A-Million - 2nd & Charles. Borders Books and Music - closed all locations in 2011. Brentano's - closed all locations in 2011. Crown Books - closed all locations in 2001. Deseret Book - also operates Seagull Book. Encore Books - defunct 1999. Family Christian Stores - closed all locations in 2017. Follett's.

  3. Waterstones - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Skoob Books - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Hatchards - Wikipedia

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    www .hatchards .co .uk. Hatchards is an English bookshop claiming to be the oldest in the United Kingdom, founded on Piccadilly in 1797 by John Hatchard. After one move, it has been at the same location on Piccadilly next to Fortnum & Mason since 1801, and the two stores are also neighbours in St. Pancras railway station as of 2014.

  6. Foyles - Wikipedia

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    Brothers William and Gilbert Foyle founded the business in 1903. After failing entrance exams for the civil service, the brothers offered their redundant textbooks for sale and were inundated by offers. This inspired them to launch a second-hand book business from home. [ 4] Flushed with success, they opened a small shop on Station Parade in ...

  7. Barter Books - Wikipedia

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    Barter Books. Coordinates: 55°24′37″N 1°41′58″W. Barter Books is in the former Alnwick railway station. Barter Books is a second-hand bookshop in the historic English market town of Alnwick, Northumberland, owned and run by Stuart and Mary Manley. It has over 350,000 visitors a year, 40% of whom are from outside the area, and is one ...

  8. Gay's the Word (bookshop) - Wikipedia

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    1. Website. gaystheword .co .uk. Gay's the Word is an independent bookshop in central London, and the oldest LGBT bookshop in the United Kingdom. Inspired by the emergence and growth of lesbian and gay bookstores in the United States, a small group of people from Gay Icebreakers, [ 1][ 2] a gay socialist group, founded the store in 1979.

  9. Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) - Wikipedia

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    Shakespeare and Company. Shakespeare and Company is an English-language bookstore opened in 1951 by George Whitman, located on Paris's Left Bank . The store was named after Sylvia Beach 's bookstore of the same name founded in 1919 on the Left Bank, which closed in 1941. Whitman adopted the "Shakespeare and Company" name for his store in 1964.

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