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Bookshops

Last week
20th April 2025 - 26th April 2025
Quiz: How much do you know about these best-selling books?
This month
April 2025
Amazon.ie's first month has little impact on Irish bookshops - but sellers fear long-term threat
This year
2025
Bookshop owner: 'The new Amazon.ie is bad news for Irish bookshops and other SMEs'
Sarah Kenny
Last year
2024
Irish bookshops expecting 'biggest publishing day this year' as new Sally Rooney novel goes on sale
Schoolbooks scheme 'death by a thousand cuts' for booksellers amid expansion to Leaving Certs
Free books scheme doesn't have to affect relationships between schools and bookshops, says Foley
'Watching in dismay': The letters sent by worried booksellers over the free books scheme
All time
‘Sally Rooney day’: Buzz in bookshops as author's much-anticipated new novel lands on shelves
'Our online orders went up overnight - we sold a lot of classics': How Covid-19 affected Irish book shops
'We are scared': Businesses closed by Covid-19 switch to online sales and deliveries to survive
'You meet people at the high and low points of their lives': What I learned when I quit my job to become a bookseller
Dawn Behan
How I went from being a data analyst with HP to owning the local bookshop
Cian Byrne
'It's this year's Buzz Lightyear': Why we flock to bookshops to buy gifts at Christmas time
Do you prefer buying books in bookshops or online?
17 Irish independent bookshops you must visit before you die