Book town
A book town is a town or village with a large number of used book or antiquarian book stores. These stores and literary festivals, attract bibliophile tourists. A number of the book towns are members of the International Organisation of Book Towns.
Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye
List of book towns
Book towns with known dates of operation
- Jinbōchō, Tokyo, Japan (early 1880s)
- Hay-on-Wye, Wales (1961)
- Redu, Belgium (1984)
- Bécherel, France (1988)
- Montolieu, France (1989)
- Bredevoort, Netherlands (1993)
- Stillwater, Minnesota, U.S. [1] (1993)
- Saint-Pierre-de-Clages, Switzerland (1993)
- Fontenoy-la-Joûte, France (1993)
- Mundal, Fjærland, Norway (1995)
- Wigtown, Scotland (1997)
- Zossen-Wünsdorf, Germany (1997)
- Damme, Belgium (1997)
- Dalmellington, Scotland (1997, though the last bookseller closed in 2005 and the project has folded)[2]
- Sysmä, Finland (4 July 1997)
- Mühlbeck-Friedersdorf, Germany (1997)
- Kampung Buku Langkawi, Malaysia (3 December 1997)
- Archer City, Texas, U.S. (1999)
- Southern Highlands, Australia (2000)
- Mellösa, Sweden (17 February 2001) [3]
- Tvedestrand, Norway (2003)
- Sedbergh, England (2003)
- Blaenavon, Wales (28 June 2003,[4] though the project had folded by March 2006)[5]
- Brownville, Nebraska, U.S., (2004)[6]
- Hobart, NY - Book Village of the Catskills ([7]) (2005)
- Atherstone, Warwickshire (2005)
- Torup, Denmark (2006) [8]
- Kampung Buku Melaka, Malaysia [9] (17 April 2007)
- St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada (2007)[10]
- Urueña, Spain (2007) [11]
- Bellprat, Catalonia (2008) [12]
- Esquelbecq, France (2010) [13]
- Clunes, Victoria, Australia (2012)
- Montereggio Mulazzo, Italy
- Borrby, Sweden (2011)
Book Towns with unknown dates of operation
- Sidney, British Columbia
- Bosu-dong, Jung-gu, Busan, South Korea
- Gold Cities BookTown, Grass Valley, California
References
- ↑ "Booktown.com". Booktown.com. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ↑ Goodenough, Mike (11 April 2005). "Dalmellington Book Town - on the road to nowhere". TheBookGuide.
- ↑ "The Book Town in Mellösa". 9 February 2012.
- ↑ "Books open new chapter for Plywood City". The Guardian. 28 June 2003.
- ↑ Goodenough, Mike (17 March 2006). "Blaenafon - The Booktown Experiment Fails". TheBookGuide.
- ↑ (www.brownville-ne.com)
- ↑ "For Those Who Love Books - Home". Hobartbookvillage.com. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ↑ torupbogby.dk. Torup Bogby home page.
- ↑ Book Village Malaysia
- ↑
- ↑ "Turismo Provincia de Valladolid". Diputaciondevalladolid.es. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ↑ "Sisena edició, Bellprat Vila del Llibre 2013". Amicsdebellprat.cat. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ↑ (www.esquelbook.com)
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