// Independent booksellers to receive support from Bloomsbury Publishing amid Covid-19 chaos

// The publishing giant will offer cash and refer customers to Bloomsbury while the bookstores are shut

Indie bookstores will receive support from Bloomsbury Publishing after many have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

The publishing firm said it will offer cash and refer customers to Bloomsbury while the independent stores are not operating.

Customers will be directed to the Bloomsbury site with a unique promotional code and the publisher will credit 15 per cent of the purchase price back to the independent retailer.

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Bloomsbury also said it hopes to offer support to the indie bookstores while their regular delivery routes may be unavailable and “reaching customers further afield or based internationally is challenging”.

It said “an enthusiastic number of bookshops” have signed up to the initiative.

“Every penny counts for independent bookshops right now, so it’s brilliant to see Bloomsbury launching this new online scheme,” independent bookshop The Mainstreet Trading Company owner Rosamund de la Hey said.

“Many independents have gone online themselves for the first time in the past week, so hopefully we may all emerge from this crisis with some positives.

“What Bloomsbury have put together, with equal speed and efficiency, is really encouraging.”

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