50 best bookshops in the UK
I was browsing through the British papers when I came across this article/list in The Independent - the UK’s top 50 bookshops. It made me smile. AbeBooks.com is listed at No.8 and we’re not even a bookshop. Really, it should be AbeBooks.co.uk because it’s best to use our UK site if you are a UK-based buyer - that way you are purchasing in pounds rather than dollars.
Technically, we are an online marketplace - a middleman, a third party that links buyers to booksellers. Several of our sellers are actually listed ahead of us, including the wonderful Much Ado Books in East Sussex (Lynne Truss’ favourite bookshop). Lots of other AbeBooks’ booksellers are on the list. Normally, I don’t really say anything about our competitors as online bookselling is a very small world, but I had to laugh when I saw Amazon.co.uk listed at only No. 35.
