Category: books
Waterstones, Edinburgh West End
Continuing with our bookstore tour … this one in Scotland The Waterstones at Edinburgh’s West End is one of four in the city. The four-floor bookshop is right at the heart of the city, opposite Edinburgh Castle, on the capital’s main shopping street; Princes St. They have “a large and inviting Children’s department, a robust…
Bookstore Librairie, Biarritz
Another entry to our tour of bookstores around the world … We found this gem of a bookstore in Biarritz. The bookstore is called “BOOKSTORE”. And to confirm the nature of its business, on the storefront below the name, it says “Librairie Bookstore”. It is understandable that this establishment at a French beach town is…
Librerie Coop + Eataly, Bologna
In our bookstore tour of the world, we increasingly see the merger of bookselling with another retail concept – for example, the T-site in Daikanyama 代官山 in Tokyo and the Eslite Spectrum in Hong Kong – see our posts here and here. In Bologna, I (Chris) visited the Librerie Coop + Eataly Bologna – a…
Libreria A. Nanni, Bologna, Italy
I was visiting Bologna last December. Bologna is famous not only for its pasta sauce and several other foods but also for its porticos. In total, there are over 45 km (28 miles) of arcades, some 38 in the city center. Bologna is officially the “City of Porticoes” following its nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage…