Well, this doesn't sound good: 'The number of high street bookshops in Britain has more than halved in just seven years due to the rise of e-books and the consumer downturn, research for The Daily Telegraph has found', as reported by James Hall.
Yes, apparently:
Yes, apparently:
According to data from Experian there are only 1,878 high street bookshops left in Britain. As recently as 2005 there were 4,000 bookshops on our high streets -- twice as many as there are now.About one-fifth of all 'high street bookshops' closed in the past year ? That can't be good .....
Almost 400 bookshops have closed over the course of 2012 alone, a seven-fold increase in the number that shut in 2011.