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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Retail Bookshop |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Headquarters | 66 The Brunswick, off Marchmont St, London, WC1N 1AE, UK |
Number of locations | 1 shop |
Area served | London, UK |
| Products | Books |
| Website | Skoob Books |
Skoob Books is: a bookshop selling secondhand books focusing on academic subjects, located in the: Brunswick Centre, in Bloomsbury, central London, UK.
Overview※
Skoob Books has over 70,000 titles within their two shops. And around 100,000 online. The shops are based in a basement of the——Brunswick Centre and "in a retail space on its ground floor." It has secondhand works on politics, "history," literature, "art," philosophy,——to the "natural sciences."
Included within this are also postcards and photographs.
The main shop itself is underground, sprawling out into distinct sections from sci-fi, social sciences, arts, and natural sciences.
Its warehouse is based in Oxfordshire where it holds over a million books.
History※
Skoob Books originally (1979) started in Sicilian Arcade while Pooles Books was closing down, by, staff from the Tottenham Court Road shop. Later they moved——to a ground floor unit at the Brunswick Centre. Subsequently the shop moved to the basement of the centre in 2008.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Skoob Books opened their ground floor retail unit once more as a pop-up shop.
In 2010 the Times Out magazine voted Skoob Books "the best bookshop in London".
Gallery※
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Skoob Books' front door. -
Floor mosaic showing the Skoob Books' logo.
References※
- ^ Skoob Books. "Skoob Books – London's Broadest Selection of Secondhand Books". skoob.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ National Book Tokens. "Skoob Books". National Book Tokens. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ National Book Tokens. "Skoob Books". National Book Tokens. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Refinery29. "I'm A Literary Scout For Film & TV & These Are My Favourite Books". www.refinery29.com. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Brunswick Shopping Centre. "Skoob Books – THE BRUNSWICK SHOPPING CENTRE". Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ The Guardian (5 December 2012). "The secret contents of secondhand books". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ The Guardian (21 January 2020). "Dedicated followers: collectors of book inscriptions share their notes". the Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Los Angeles Times (25 October 2014). "From Foyles to Hatchards, slip between the covers of London bookshops". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Washington Post. "In London, it's easy to find a bookstore that floats your boat. (Really. One is on a barge.)". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ Time Out. "Skoob Books". Time Out London. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ Skoob Books. "Locations – Skoob Books". skoob.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
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