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Town or village with many used book or antiquarian bookstores
Hay Castle bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, with other bookshops on the road behind.
A book town is a town or village with many
used book or antiquarian
bookstores . These
stores , as well as
literary festivals , attract
bibliophile tourists. Some book towns are members of the International Organisation of Book Towns .
[1]
List of book towns
Scotland's largest secondhand bookshop, in Wigtown
Book towns with known dates of operation
Dalmellington , Scotland (1997, though the last bookseller closed in 2005 and the project has folded.)
[2]
Montmorillon , France (2000)
[3]
Mellösa , Sweden (2001)
[4]
Blaenavon , Wales (28 June 2003,
[5] though the project had folded by March 2006.)
[6]
Brownville, Nebraska , U.S. (2004)
[7]
Hobart, NY , U.S. – Book Village of the Catskills
[8] (2005)
Torup,
Denmark (2006)
[9]
Kampung Buku Melaka , Malaysia
[10] (17 April 2007)
Urueña , Spain (2007)
[11]
Bellprat , Spain (2008)
[12]
Esquelbecq , France (2010)
[13]
Borrby , Sweden (17 July 2011)
[14]
Featherston , New Zealand (2015)
[15]
Bhilar , India (2017)
[16]
La Pobla de Segur , Spain (2018)
[17]
See also
References
^
"International Organisation of Book Towns" . www.booktown.net .
^ Goodenough, Mike (11 April 2005).
"Dalmellington Book Town - on the road to nowhere" . TheBookGuide . Archived from
the original on 20 July 2011.
^ Alex Johnson (5 April 2018).
Book Towns . Frances Lincoln (White Lion 2). p. 90.
ISBN
978-1-78101-242-0 .
^
"The Book Town in Mellösa" . 9 February 2012. Archived from
the original on 8 March 2012.
^ Kennedy, Maev; Correspondent, Heritage (28 June 2003).
"Books open new chapter for Plywood City" .
The Guardian .
^ Goodenough, Mike (17 March 2006).
"Blaenafon – The Booktown Experiment Fails" . TheBookGuide . Archived from
the original on 3 July 2010.
^
"Welcome to Brownville Nebraska - Events, News and Info" . Brownville Nebraska - Merchants of Brownvill .
^
"For Those Who Love Books - Home" . Hobartbookvillage.com. Retrieved 2 May 2013 .
^
torupbogby.dk . Torup Bogby home page.
^
Book Village Malaysia
^
"Turismo Provincia de Valladolid" . Diputaciondevalladolid.es. Archived from
the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2013 .
^
"Bellprat Vila del Llibre" . www.viladelllibre.cat. Retrieved 2 May 2013 .
^
"Esquelbook le site d'Esquelbecq, Village du Livre" . esquelbook.com (in French). Retrieved 2 January 2018 .
^
"Borrby Bokby - Sveriges första bokby" . Borrby Bokby .
^
"Booktown | Featherston, New Zealand" . featherston-booktown . Retrieved 6 June 2020 .
^ Dey, Panchali.
"Bhilar, India's first 'book village', welcomes you to test your reading skills" . The Times of India .
ISSN
0971-8257 . Retrieved 12 February 2023 .
^
"Book town Festival" . Ajuntament de La Pobla de Segur . Retrieved 12 February 2023 .
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