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The Simple Things (Digital)

The Simple Things (Digital)

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The indie bookshops

Many of us dream of running our own business. We ask the people who are actually doing it to share some of their insights and inspirations, the reality of the graft and their hard-won wisdom – and why they wouldn't have it any other way…
The indie bookshops
The Book Case The story so far: Kate Claughan was working as the children's bookseller at Hebden Bridge's The Book Case when, in 2011, the chance came to buy the shop. The shop made headlines in 2015 when it was badly hit in the town's floods. In 2017, she opened a second shop, The Book Corner in Halifax. bookcasehebden.wordpress.com When I bought the shop, everyone said books were obsolete. That 'people want e-books, not physical books'. Amazon and supermarkets were undercutting prices and bookshops seemed to be closing all over. But buying the shop was less scary than having to find another job! I bought it on very good terms, paying it off gradually. And, since then, independent bookshops have had a renaissance. The 2015 flood was miserable. There was so much mud,…
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