BA relaunches Shopfloor Publishers scheme

In the UK, the Booksellers Association (BA) is relaunching its Shopfloor Publishers scheme, which invites publishers to spend a day working in a bookshop, reports the Bookseller.

The Shopfloor Publishers scheme will run year round, following the success of previous versions of the project. The BA has invited members to volunteer to host senior publishers in their shop, and will match these with publishers.

Hazel Broadfoot, BA president and owner of Village Books in London, said: ‘Following the pandemic, and the changes wrought on the industry by it, and by the current cost-of-living crisis, it feels like the time is right to relaunch this collaboration project, and bring booksellers and publishers together.’

‘For publishers, working in a bookshop for a day can be an eye-opening experience: it is a chance to appreciate what booksellers do, while witnessing consumer behaviour up close,’ said Broadfoot. ‘We’ve been delighted that a number of bookshops have been reciprocally invited into publishing houses and we hope to see that happen again this time round; booksellers will be equally enlightened by seeing the inside workings of publishing.’

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