Shelf Awareness
"Foyles is making a heroic attempt to put curation back in to the heart of bookselling--inviting authors such as P.D. James and Sarah Waters to pick their favorite books to have on front-of-store tables, for example. It is commendable, too, that the store wants to emphasize the 'beauty' of the book as a physical item, as with the art books in the key space by the door. But the best, best bit in all of this is Foyles' defiance of discount. Books are precious objects that are sometimes--quite often--worth much more than the price of a cup of tea."
--Arifa Akbar on Foyles' new "bookshop of the future" in his Independent piece headlined "A Bookshop Is More than Its Discounts"
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