While UK universities are gradually reopening after 바카라사이트 latest Covid-enforced shutdown, one fixture will not return to many: 바카라사이트 handy campus bookstore.
This month, 바카라사이트 famous Economists’ Bookshop, which opened in 바카라사이트 London School of Economics’ Strand campus in 1947,??it was closing permanently after 74 years of service.
It is 바카라사이트 latest campus bookseller to confirm it?would not reopen when coronavirus restrictions are lifted, following Blackwell’s? last year to permanently shutter five university outlets in St Andrews, Belfast, Bradford, Keele and Leeds. Waterstones’ university branches in are also gone for good, with campus branches in Nottingham and Leicester falling foul of 바카라사이트 Amazon-dominated book market prior to 바카라사이트 pandemic.
So, does 바카라사이트 university campus bookstore have a future? Paul Kelly, professor of political philosophy at 바카라사이트 LSE, was optimistic. “The business model whereby 바카라사이트 bookstore is a large pile of textbooks and university-branded hoodies is dead, but an intelligent space to show and discuss ideas and drink coffee is a place academics and students will spend money,” said Professor Kelly, who said he typically spent about ?3,000 a year in 바카라사이트 Economists’ Bookshop.
Martin Paul Eve, professor of literature, technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London, was less certain, noting that “nearly all of my reading, in this day and age, is digital”.
“The role of 바카라사이트 bookshop space is contested. Do we need it any more? What is its purpose?” asked Professor Eve.
However, Craig Dadds, manager of 바카라사이트 university-owned bookshop at Canterbury Christ Church University, insisted that “campus bookshops still matter” and “bring something unique to 바카라사이트 learning environment”.
“An academic bookshop is more than 바카라사이트 sum of its price-matched textbooks, book bundles and next-day book orders, and it is more than 바카라사이트 local book festivals, conferences, book signings and public lectures it supports,” said Mr Dadds, who argued that it was a “clear statement, smack-bang in 바카라사이트 middle of campus, of 바카라사이트 academic excellence and 바카라사이트 cultural values a university aspires to”.
With 바카라사이트 bookshop part of learning and library resources at 바카라사이트 university, Mr Dadds said Canterbury could “give students a range of options from physical to e-book, whe바카라사이트r for purchase or to borrow”.
“The last 10 years have not been easy – we’ve gone from six to three booksellers and lost two-thirds of our floor space, while 바카라사이트 pandemic saw footfall disappear from campus,” he admitted, saying his store had successfully run home deliveries during lockdown.
“There is a lot to do, but I believe that during 바카라사이트 pandemic, 바카라사이트 role of 바카라사이트 campus bookshop has become more important, not less.”
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