Bookshops will never die. That’s why I bought one on Gumtree five years ago – and we’re still here | Matt Davis

Bookshops will never die. That’s why I bought one on Gumtree five years ago – and we’re still here |  Matt Davis

Large-scale, algorithmic bookselling will never outlive the necessity of local stores like ours

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We bought our bookshop on Gumtree. In 2019, when the lovely Bookshop at Queenscliff in Victoria came up for sale, my wife, Jayne Tuttle, and I were living in Paris working in advertising.

“Oh no!” she said. “Hope someone good buys it.”

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