The news is that the number of independent bookshops went up last year, in 2018 by fifteen and in 2017 by one. That’s the good news, though the recovery is not spectacular. The bad news is that in 1995 there were 1,849 of them and in 2016 there were only 867. Is this “bottoming out” or the tanker slowly turning round and is the growth in the indies going to accelerate over the next decade back to previous levels – and beyond?
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You may not know that this is Global Entrepreneurship Week, so as the British Library cajoles us into growth, innovation and of course scaling-up, we have belatedly decided to come out with our own mission statement…
Read MoreWhy should you read a translated novel, when there are so many good ones written in English? Surely a translation is never as good as the original? Who benefits most from translated literature? In this blog post Vagabond founder Allan Cameron explores these questions and also discusses the precarious position of small publishers of translated literary fiction.
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