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Act now to save your independent book shop
• 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 cherry-pick 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 have 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 over 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.
MARK THOMAS
Bloomsbury St, WC1
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