WUB 2021

23. October 2021Sandra van LenteEvents, NewsGermany, Independent Bookshop Week, independent bookshops

What’s a WUB? It’s the end of October (already?!) and thus time for another round of the German “Independent Bookshop Week”: the WUB, Woche Unabhängiger Buchhandlungen, 23-30 October 2021. Read more

“We believe in more good books, good bookshops with good booksellers and customers who appreciate this” – Interview with an Independent Bookseller in Berlin

6. October 2017Gesa StedmanInterviewBerlin, bookseller, Buchlokal, children's books, future readers, independent bookshops, indies, literary fiction, YA books

Gesa Stedman interviewed Friederike Zöllner, owner of the bookshop Buchlokal in Berlin-Pankow, for the Literary Field Kaleidoscope. The German version of the interview is available via this link (German pdf), an English pdf file here (link to English pdf). When and why did Buchlokal first open? Which core areas does […] Read more

Independent Bookshop Week

23. June 2017Sandra van LenteEventsbookshop crawl, IBW, independent bookshops, indie bookshop week, UK

This short post is not going to be about what happened one year ago, it’s going to be about what’s on tomorrow and next week: it’s Independent Bookshop Week! This year, it runs from 24 June to 1 July and about 400 bookshops on the British isles are participating. “Independent […] Read more