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]
Scotland's largest secondhand bookshop, in Wigtown Book towns with known dates of operation [ edit ] Hay-on-Wye , Wales (1962)[ 2] [ 3]
Redu , Belgium (1984)[ 3]
Dalmellington , Scotland (1997, though the last bookseller closed in 2005, and the project has folded.)[ 4]
Montmorillon , France (2000)[ 5]
Mellösa , Sweden (2001)[ 6]
Sedbergh , England (2003)[ 7]
Blaenavon , Wales (28 June 2003,[ 8] though the project had folded by March 2006.)[ 9]
Brownville, Nebraska , U.S. (2004)[ 10]
Hobart, NY , U.S. – Book Village of the Catskills[ 11] (2005)
Torup, Denmark (2006)[ 12]
Kampung Buku Melaka, Malaysia[ 13] (17 April 2007)
Urueña , Spain (2007)[ 14]
Bellprat , Spain (2008)[ 15]
Esquelbecq , France (2010)[ 16]
Borrby , Sweden (17 July 2011)[ 17]
Featherston , New Zealand (2015)[ 18]
Bhilar , India (2017)[ 19]
La Pobla de Segur , Spain (2018)[ 20] Book towns with unknown dates of operation [ edit ]
^ "International Organisation of Book Towns" . www.booktown.net .
^ "Richard Booth obituary" . The Guardian . 22 August 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2024 .
^ a b c Dominic Rech (31 August 2019). "The 'mini Trump' who built a kingdom out of books" . CNN . Retrieved 1 May 2024 .
^ 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.
^ "Our Book Town Story" . Visit Sedbergh . Retrieved 1 May 2024 .
^ 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 .
^ "Velkommen til Torup Bogby" [Welcome to Torup Bogby]. torupbogby.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 1 May 2024 .
^ 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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