Angel goes online, Murder One moves

Competition from chain booksellers has led Islington’s Angel Bookshop on the High Street to close its store and move its business online. Borders opened in the nearby N1 centre in May 2002.
Owner John Murray-Browne is developing angelbookshop.com, and linking the site with Gardners to give customers 24-hour direct supply. Angel also aims to move into second-hand books. Murray-Browne said: "We had a basic website, but now I will conduct all of the business by way of the phone and website." He bought the site in 1977, and is currently looking for tenants.
Crime and mystery bookshop Murder One is being forced to move from its central site in Charing Cross Road by the end of March, due to the redevelopment of Chinatown.
It is moving across the road to the former premises of the Arabic Al Hoda bookshop, which closed last year. The shop will benefit from a £120,000 refit, funded entirely by the business. But a reduction in space of 20% has forced Murder One to eliminating its science fiction and fantasy floor, New Worlds. The remaining stock is to be moved across for an April opening.
Owner Maxim Jakubowski said: "It will be business as usual as far as publishers are concerned. Despite flat sales for the past few years, we have always been profitable and hope to remain so."
lNottingham’s Page 2 Page will close this summer, after owner Frances Slee-Smith failed to find a buyer following her decision to move away from the area.