Ebook sales help bid to reopen library

 

A Leading book retailer plans to help save Kensal Rise library by raising money through ebooks.

The library, opened by Mark Twain in 1900, was shut by Brent council despite a campaign to save it backed by authors including Philip Pullman and Zadie Smith.

Now former Waterstones boss Tim Coates is hoping to help campaigners  raise enough money to take over the building.

From next month, he will offer an ebook service to Kensal Rise library users and schools in England, with half the profits going to the campaign. The service, Bilbary, has more than 350,000 titles and has been operating in US libraries for more than a year.

Mr Coates said: “Literally half the money we make will go to the library, I hope it will be thousands of pounds we can help them with.” So far campaigners have raised £33,303 towards their £70,000 goal, which includes urgent repairs to the library. They are presenting their business plan to the building’s owner, All Soul’s College, Oxford, on September 7 and hope to be able to reopen the library within a year of its closure on October 13. Campaigner Laura Collignon said it was “wonderful” that Kensal Rise would be the home of Bilbary.

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