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Readers, unite to save your bookshop
• INDEPENDENT bookshops in Britain are an endangered species. On average, one closes every month. They are suffering as the big chains rely on slashing prices and supermarkets cherrypick the best-selling titles.
Amazon on the internet and Waterstone’s on the High Street dominate the book trade in Britain. They are doing to the book trade what Starbucks has done to coffee shops, and every high street looks the same, homogenised and centralised with less choice.
Bookmarks is an independent socialist bookshop in London which has been providing a book service to the working-class movement for more than 30 years.
We give advice on anything from pamphlets on health and safety law to multi-cultural children’s books, give discounts to orders for trade union branch libraries and send bookstalls to trade union events. We are also the appointed bookseller to the TUC.
We have launched an appeal, with the support of Tony Benn, to raise £50,000 to help secure the bookshop’s future.
We do not have millionaire benefactors. Instead, we are calling on the support of the thousands of trade unionists and activists across the country who want to see our socialist bookshop thrive. If you would like any other information about Bookmarks, the issues raised in this appeal or a model motion for your organisation, then get in touch by emailing enquiries@bookmarks.uk.com, calling 0207 637 1848 or, better still, pop in and see us.
MARK THOMAS
Bookmarks socialist bookshop
Bloomsbury Street, WC1
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