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Lists Of Bookstores
This is a list of bookstore chains with brick-and-mortar locations. In the United Kingdom and many parts of the English speaking world, they are known as "Bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English, they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines. This list includes both current and defunct businesses, and also includes large independent bookstores that have multiple locations, but that use a different business model than most business chains. Current Historical The following chains no longer operate any physical retail locations. See also *List of independent bookstores *List of online booksellers References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Bookstore Chains Lists of bookstores, Chains Bookstores, . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bookstore
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, book people, bookmen, or bookwomen. History The founding of libraries in stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade. The spread of Christianity naturally created a great demand for copies of the Gospels and other sacred books, and, later on for missals and other devotional volumes for both church and private use. The modern system of bookselling dates from soon after the introduction of printing. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Low Countries, for a time, became primary center of the bookselling world. Modern book selling has changed dramatically with the advent of the Internet. Major websites such as Amazon, eBay, and other big book d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobo Inc
Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, e-readers and formerly tablet computers. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten. The name'' Kobo'' is an anagram of ''book''. History Kobo originated as Shortcovers, a cloud eReading service launched by the Canadian bookstore chain Indigo Books and Music in February 2009. In December 2009, Indigo renamed the service Kobo and spun it off into an independent company. Indigo remained the majority owner, with investors including Borders, Cheung Kong Holdings, and REDgroup Retail taking minority stakes. , Indigo Books & Music owned 58% of Kobo Inc.. Rakuten acquired the company from these owners in January 2012. On 23 May 2016, Waterstones announced it had sold its eBook business to Rakuten Kobo Inc., and as of 14 June 2016, users were required to access their eBooks via Kobo's eBook site. During the COVID pandemic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugendubel
Hugendubel is, along with Thalia, one of two major book retailers in Germany. It was founded in 1893 by Heinrich Karl Gustav Hugendubel in Munich. History Heinrich Karl Gustav Hugendubel bought an existing bookshop at Salvatorplatz in Munich in 1893, laying the foundation for a German limited partnership A limited partnership (LP) is a type of partnership with general partners, who have a right to manage the business, and limited partners, who have no right to manage the business but have only limited liability for its debts. Limited partnership ..., GmbH & Co. KG. The firm was left to his son, Heinrich Hugendubel, in 1916 and then his son, Paul Hugendubel, in 1934. After Paul's death in 1943, his wife, Anneliese Hugendubel, assumed control, acting as managing chief until 1964 when their son, Heinrich Hugendubel, opened the first branch in Munich. Heinrich Hugendubel II, led the enterprise till his death in 2005 and incorporated acting partners Ekkehard Lux, Thomas Nit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furet Du Nord
''Furet du Nord'' is a chain of bookstores in the Nord department of France. Its origins date back to 1936 when a fur store located on ''Rue de la Vieille-Comédie'' in Lille was transformed into a bookstore. It retained its name, referring to a local tradition: rabbit hunting with ferrets. Today, the flagship store is located in Lille on the Grand Place. It was established in 1959 and was the largest bookstore in the world from 1992 to 1999. It is still one of the largest bookshops in France. History ''Furet du Nord'' was originally a fur shop located on ''Rue de la Vieille-Comédie'' in Lille. High school principal Georges Poulard transformed the fur shop into a bookstore in 1936. Despite the nature of the business changing, the new owner decided to keep the original name, ''Furet du Nord''. In 1947, Paul Callens began working at ''Furet du Nord''. He had a passion for books despite coming from a family where his father, a butcher in Tourcoing, did not understand or indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hachette Distribution Services
Hachette may refer to: * Hachette (surname) * Hachette Livre, a French publisher, the imprint of Lagardère Publishing ** Hachette Book Group, the American subsidiary ** Hachette Distribution Services, the distribution arm See also * Hachette Filipacchi Médias Hachette Filipacchi Médias, S.A. (HFM) is a magazine publisher. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Active, a division of the media conglomerate Lagardère Group of France. History '' Hachette'' was founded by Louis Hachette (Fre ..., a French magazine publisher, a subsidiary of Lagardère Media ** Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., the American subsidiary * Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: French–English English–French {{Disambiguation eo:Hachette pl:Hachette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fnac
Fnac () is a French multinational retail chain specializing in the sale of entertainment Media (communication), media and consumer electronics. Fnac was founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954. Its headquarters is located in ''Le Flavia'' in Ivry-sur-Seine near Paris. Its name is an abbreviation of ''Fédération Nationale d’Achats des Cadres'' ("National Purchasing Federation for Cadres"). It merged with Darty in 2016 to become Groupe Fnac Darty. History Max Théret had a passion for photography which began in 1932. Hunted by the Gestapo, Théret left the Zone occupée, Occupied Zone in 1942, moving to Grenoble, where he took up photography as a career. After the war, he trained as a photo laboratory technician, founded his own laboratory, and later constructed the first colour-processing machine in France. In 1951, while working for the Postes, télégraphes et téléphones (France), telephone company, he founded Economie Nouvelle, a membership discount buying group f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suomalainen Kirjakauppa
Suomalainen Kirjakauppa (meaning 'Finnish bookshop') is the largest bookshop chain in Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ..., with its flagship branch in Helsinki being Finland's largest bookshop. It was founded in 1912 and expanded to become Finland's largest bookshop chain in the 1990s. In May 2017 it consists of 55 shops selling books, office supplies and art materials. It is owned by Otava Group. See also The Otava Group, Finland's third-largest multidisciplinary media company, reaches nearly every Finnish citizenby operating across three main business sectors: Books, Learning Services, and Media. References External links Suomalainen Kirjakauppa - Official site and internet store Bookstores of Finland {{Finland-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academic Bookstore
The Academic Bookstore ( Finnish: , Swedish: ) is a Finnish chain of bookstores. It has both physical outlets as well as an online presence. Stockmann sold the chain in 2015 to Bonnier Group. Originally founded as an independent chain, it was bought out by Stockmann in 1930. Its revenue in 2015 was about 40 million euros. History The Academic Bookstore was founded in 1893. Its founders included and . Its goal was "to serve equally the needs of researchers and the general public, and which, fairly looking after the interests of domestic publishing, working to establish faster and more secure links with the foreign book market". The first store was located on Aleksanterinkatu in Helsinki. In 1901 the bookstore moved to a new location on the same street, enabling it to sell 1200 titles simultaneously. Another move was made in 1910. Stockmann bought the Academic Bookstore in 1930. The new owner soon moved it to the new Stockmann department store at Helsinki centre. In 1969 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rahva Raamat
Rahva Raamat is the largest retail and wholesale bookseller in Estonia. It has 15 bookstores, a restaurant, and two cafés in 9 Estonian cities, as well as aonline store The company is named after the Rahva Raamat's bookstore, which operated at Pärnu mnt 10 in Tallinn and was given this name in 1962 (previously called Bookstore No. 1). Since bookstores have been operating at the same location since 1912, when Gustav Pihlakas opened a book and stationery store, Rahva Raamat AS also considers its history to date back to 1912. During privatization, on May 6, 1997, the Estonian Privatisation Agency sold 49% of the shares of Rahva Raamat, which had until then operated as a state-owned joint-stock company, to AS KV Grupp under a purchase agreement. The remaining 51% of the shares were privatized in February 2001. Hans H. Luik, the majority owner of the Ekspress Grupp, Ekspress Group, purchased Rahva Raamat in October 2004. The stores belonged to the Ekspress Group until 2010, when the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Commercial Press
The Commercial Press () is the first modern publishing organization in China. The Commercial Press is known for its academic publishing and translation work in humanities and social sciences, as well as the '' Xinhua Dictionary''. History In 1897, 26-year-old Xia Ruifang and three of his friends (including the Bao brothers Bao Xian'en and Bao Xianchang) founded The Commercial Press in Shanghai. All four were Protestant Christians who received their training at the American Presbyterian Mission Press. The group soon received financial backing and began publishing books such as Bibles. From 1903 to 1914, The Commercial Press operated as a joint venture with Kinkōdō, one of the largest Japanese textbook publishers. Through the joint venture, The Commercial Press obtained the latest printing technology as well as lantern slides and cinema. From 1903, Zhang Yuanji (张元济, 1867–1959), reacting to China's moves towards a new curriculum, created several textbook and tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Holdings
Popular Holdings Limited, more commonly known as just Popular (stylized in all caps) or colloquially as the Popular Bookstore, is a Singaporean multinational bookstore chain. Aside from Singapore, it also has subsidiaries in countries such as Canada, China (including Hong Kong and Macau), Taiwan, Malaysia, United Kingdom, and the United States. During the financial year of 2011, it had a turnover of approximately S$735.9 million. Overview The first Popular Bookstore was set up in 1924 by Chou Sing Chu in Singapore, initially focusing on retailing Chinese books and stationery. In March 2006, Popular Holdings was the main organiser of BookFest@Singapore, the first Chinese-language book fair ever held outside of China. In May 2006, Popular Holdings staged the inaugural BookFest@Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. It is a platform for established publishers to showcase their latest publications and renowned authors to meet and interact with the readers. The inaugural BookFest@Hong Kong was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Page One (bookstore)
Page One () is a bookstore chain and publisher founded in Singapore by Mark Tan (), with three branches in mainland China. Traditionally focused on English language books, it has recently expanded into the Chinese language market. There were branches which have closed in Singapore (2011), Taiwan (2015) and Hong Kong (November 2016). History Page One began in 1983, when a small shop stocking handpicked art and design books opened in a shopping mall in Singapore. The small shop accumulated a loyal following over the years and evolved into a brand. Since then, Page One has marked its presence with bookstores in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. In Singapore, the Page One bookstore was established at VivoCity, the shopping mall touted to be the largest of its kind on the island. While it began as a retail outfit, Page One has also expanded in the areas of book publishing and distribution over the years. In publishing, Page One builds its strength from the acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
