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Barter Books is a second-hand bookshop in the historic English market town of Alnwick, Northumberland, owned and run by Stuart and Mary Manley. It has over 350,000 visitors a year, 40% of whom are from outside the area, and is one of the largest second-hand bookshops in Europe. It is considered a local tourist attraction and has been described as "the British Library of second-hand bookshops." The shop is notable for its use of a barter system, whereby customers can exchange their books for credit against future purchases; standard cash purchases are also available.

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  • Barter Books (en)
  • 巴特書店 (zh)
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  • 巴特書店是一間英國的獨立二手書店，位於阿尼克，史都華和太太瑪麗於1991年開始經營這間書店，原先只是在一間廢置的工廠內經營，後來逐漸擴展至曾經是其中一個車站的阿尼克站。現時每年書店有超過20萬人次訪客，成為了歐洲最大的二手圖書交易市場之一。2000年，史都華夫婦在一堆舊書中發現了二戰時期的一張海報Keep Calm and Carry On，兩人將海報大量複制，並應用在不同商品上，成為了一種流行文化。 (zh)
  • Barter Books is a second-hand bookshop in the historic English market town of Alnwick, Northumberland, owned and run by Stuart and Mary Manley. It has over 350,000 visitors a year, 40% of whom are from outside the area, and is one of the largest second-hand bookshops in Europe. It is considered a local tourist attraction and has been described as "the British Library of second-hand bookshops." The shop is notable for its use of a barter system, whereby customers can exchange their books for credit against future purchases; standard cash purchases are also available. (en)
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  • Barter Books is a second-hand bookshop in the historic English market town of Alnwick, Northumberland, owned and run by Stuart and Mary Manley. It has over 350,000 visitors a year, 40% of whom are from outside the area, and is one of the largest second-hand bookshops in Europe. It is considered a local tourist attraction and has been described as "the British Library of second-hand bookshops." The bookshop is in the Victorian Alnwick railway station, designed by William Bell and opened in 1887. The station was in use until the closure of the Alnwick branch line in 1968; Barter Books was opened in 1991. The shop is notable for its use of a barter system, whereby customers can exchange their books for credit against future purchases; standard cash purchases are also available. Barter Books has also been subject to crime on occasion. On 3 May 2007 a local newspaper, the Northumberland Gazette, reported that a book worth over £2,000 was returned to the book shop 5 years after it was stolen. Barter Books hit the headlines in 2000 when the owner discovered, in a box of old books bought at an auction, a World War II poster from 1939. The slogan, "Keep Calm and Carry On", and the simple design have turned it into an international phenomenon; and it has been on the walls of places as diverse as Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street and the US Embassy in Belgium. (en)
  • 巴特書店是一間英國的獨立二手書店，位於阿尼克，史都華和太太瑪麗於1991年開始經營這間書店，原先只是在一間廢置的工廠內經營，後來逐漸擴展至曾經是其中一個車站的阿尼克站。現時每年書店有超過20萬人次訪客，成為了歐洲最大的二手圖書交易市場之一。2000年，史都華夫婦在一堆舊書中發現了二戰時期的一張海報Keep Calm and Carry On，兩人將海報大量複制，並應用在不同商品上，成為了一種流行文化。 (zh)
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