Skoob Books

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Skoob Books
Company type Private
IndustryRetail
Bookshop
Founded2008
Headquarters66 The Brunswick, off Marchmont St, London, WC1N 1AE, UK
Number of locations
1 shop
Area served
London, UK
ProductsBooks
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. [1] [2]

Contents

Overview

Skoob Books has over 70,000 titles within their two shops and around 100,000 online. [3] The shops are based in a basement of the Brunswick Centre and in a retail space on its ground floor. It has secondhand [4] works on politics, history, literature, art, philosophy, to the natural sciences. [5] [6]

Included within this are also postcards and photographs. [7] [8]

The main shop itself is underground, sprawling out into distinct sections from sci-fi, social sciences, arts, and natural sciences. [9]

Its warehouse is based in Oxfordshire where it holds over a million books. [10]

History

Skoob Books originally (1979) started in Sicilian Avenue 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. [11]

In 2010 the Times Out magazine voted Skoob Books "the best bookshop in London".

References

  1. ↑ Skoob Books. "Skoob Books – London's Broadest Selection of Secondhand Books". skoob.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  2. ↑ National Book Tokens. "Skoob Books". National Book Tokens. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  3. ↑ National Book Tokens. "Skoob Books". National Book Tokens. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  4. ↑ 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)
  5. ↑ Brunswick Shopping Centre. "Skoob Books – THE BRUNSWICK SHOPPING CENTRE" . Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  6. ↑ The Guardian (5 December 2012). "The secret contents of secondhand books". the Guardian. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  7. ↑ The Guardian (21 January 2020). "Dedicated followers: collectors of book inscriptions share their notes". the Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  8. ↑ Los Angeles Times (25 October 2014). "From Foyles to Hatchards, slip between the covers of London bookshops". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Time Out. "Skoob Books". Time Out London. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  11. ↑ Skoob Books. "Locations – Skoob Books". skoob.com. Retrieved 5 January 2022.

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