Independent Alliance

Independent booksellers club together

September 28th, 2011

Independent booksellers across the country have formed an alliance. On October 1st, with backing from the Guardian newspaper, they are launching their own national loyalty card scheme. Participating bookshops – 114 in total – can be found on the Love Your Indie website.

The other news is that independent booksellers in London have produced a new map showing the location of 87 independent bookshops across the city, including shops selling new, antiquarian, specialist and second-hand titles. The map features a text work from the artist David Batchelor and is available, free, in bookshops and galleries. Among the bookshops which have donated money to fund its publication are Housman’s Bookshop in Kings Cross, Woolfson and Tay in Bermondsey and the Atlantis Bookshop in Bloomsbury.