Talk:Blackwell's

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I just removed this:

"The 50 Broad Street shop, traditionally known as the Big House, is a bit rubbish now."

This bald statement is POV. Some explanation and justification should be given for such a claim. Molinari 00:10, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Fantasy & SF Stores

The article says that one of Blackwell's specialist shops sells F&SF. I can't find any mention of this on their website. Can anyone confirm? Rojomoke 14:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• I believe it's the Reading store, the manager there is a bit of a SciFi nut Jenny 11:40, 2 February 2007 (UTC) (Blackwell employee)
• The Reading store has now closed, so I'm removing the reference to specialist fantasy & SF stores. Rojomoke (talk) 17:39, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Blackwell - Wiley

I've noticed that Amazon (U.S.) has changed "Blackwell" to "Blackwell-Wiley." Should this article be renamed? 70.131.131.41 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 05:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Both the web site and the stores are still trading as just "Blackwell's", so I would say not. Rojomoke (talk) 11:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

You are probably thinking about Blackwell Publishing, which is a defunct publishing company formerly owned by the same family, but now an imprint of Wiley. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 16:34, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

improving this article

Hi! If anyone is interested, I shall be pottering around the article over the next few weeks, doing a lot of copyediting etc to try and bring this article up to standard, even Good Article standard if possible. If you're interested in helping, do let me know on here or here, it will be much appreciated! Ta, RandomArticles||Talk 13:05, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 17:29, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

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Blackwell UK → Blackwell's – While "Blackwell UK" is the official company name, as per WP:COMMONNAME the article would be better situated at 'Blackwell's" as this is the trading name as used in their logo, website etc. Jellyman (talk) 21:22, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

A quick look at their website confirms that this would be a sensible move BeckySharpp (talk) 13:01, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

• Support seems reasonable, as Blackwell's seems to be WP:COMMONNAME. Joseph2302 (talk) 01:08, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

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Still an academic bookstore?

While it does have academic books, its website frontpage lists more or less all popular fiction. - 73.88.59.121 (talk) 16:54, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

I have not been to the Oxford shop for a long time. Then the ground floor was popular books, but the basement was where undergraduates bought the books they needed for their study. I doubt it has changed. Blackwells have opened shops elsewhere, and the London shop has more popular fiction although it also serves part of London Universiy. --Bduke (talk) 23:21, 27 October 2021 (UTC)