Independent booksellers: 'You have to offer something that others haven't'
The lockdowns gave many of us more time to read
Like Little Acorns in Derry, that idea of being embedded in the community has been a central theme of the business model of Belfast bookshop No Alibis, which marks its 25th year in business in 2022. "Businesses like ours, coming into the future, are going to have to cement that community aspect of what they do, reaching out to the local community, providing services that go beyond the click it and get it service, or it's going to be very hard," Mr Torrans adds.There's still a degree of uncertainty looking to the future, he says, beyond the pandemic, pointing to the fact that Amazon Prime delivery vans have become a common sight on Belfast's roads.
He now believes he's one of the largest sellers of second-hand theological books on the island of Ireland, with customers from across Ireland, Great Britain and further afield. On the other side of Northern Ireland, Bookends in Bangor stocks mostly vintage books, everything from old Ladybird editions to military texts.
He says he recently got a book of maps from the US dated 1870, with all the battle sites of the American Civil War. It was sold to a bookseller in Denver.
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