# James Lackington

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Mitchell Kaplan on successful bookselling and turning books into films

Miami native Mitchell Kaplan is the owner/founder of Books & Books, one of the premier independent bookstore groups in the United States, and a respected leader in the book business. Along with Eduardo J. Padrón, president of Miami-Dade College (MDC), he co-founded The Miami Book Fair (MBF), the la…

The Man Who Invented the Modern Bookstore

Writing in his Memoirs of the First Forty-Five Years of the Life of James Lackington (published in 1792), Lackington, who began his working life as an illiterate shoemaker’s apprentice, explained why he had undertaken to transform the book industry: Thousands […] have been effectually prevented fr…

James Lackington - London Discount Bookseller of the 1800s

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://bookhistorybite.wordpress.com/2021/03/29/james-lackington-2/

Shaun Bythell: Return of the Bookseller Diarist

For this week’s Book Club, Sam Leith, the Spectator’s literary editor, is joined by Shaun Bythell, proprietor of The Book Shop in Wigtown, Scotland, and author of The Diary of a Bookseller series, to discuss the fourth instalment, The Return of the Bookseller’s Diary. They discuss the strange chara…

Book Club: Shaun Bythell – Return of the Bookseller Diarist

For this week’s Book Club, Sam Leith, the Spectator’s literary editor, is joined by Shaun Bythell, proprietor of The Book Shop in Wigtown, Scotland, and author of The Diary of a Bookseller series, to discuss the fourth instalment, The Return of the Bookseller’s Diary. They discuss the strange chara…

Book Club: Shaun Bythell – Return of the Bookseller Diarist

For this week’s Book Club, Sam Leith, the Spectator’s literary editor, is joined by Shaun Bythell, proprietor of The Book Shop in Wigtown, Scotland, and author of The Diary of a Bookseller series, to discuss the fourth instalment, The Return of the Bookseller’s Diary. They discuss the strange chara…