{"id":127094,"date":"2020-01-10T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/10\/people-are-so-happy-we-exist-indie-bookshops-grow-despite-retail-slump\/"},"modified":"2020-01-10T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T00:01:22","slug":"people-are-so-happy-we-exist-indie-bookshops-grow-despite-retail-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=127094","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People are so happy we exist\u2019: indie bookshops grow despite retail slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of decline, the sector has recorded three years of expansion. Some of the newest booksellers explain how they\u2019re bucking the book marketJames Ashmore admits that he and his wife Louise \u201chad a good five minutes of just smelling all the books\u201d when the stock arrived for their new independent bookshop, Read., in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.\u201cIt\u2019s like when you get a book for Christmas, but we got 35 boxes which we cracked open. It was brilliant,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was so tempting to just sit down and read them, but putting them on shelves was one of the best things. Books are so gorgeous to look at.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/jan\/10\/indie-bookshops-grow-high-street-declines\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018People are so happy we exist\u2019: indie bookshops grow despite retail slump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of decline, the sector has recorded three years of expansion. Some of the newest booksellers explain how they\u2019re bucking the book marketJames Ashmore admits that he and his wife Louise \u201chad a good five minutes of just smelling all the books\u201d when the stock arrived for their new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}