PRH to Close My Independent Bookshop

Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced it will close its consumer book recommendation site My Independent Bookshop ahead of the launch of its new website next year.

PRH launched My Independent Bookshop in May 2014 as a social platform that allowed readers to set up ‘virtual bookshops’, where they could share their favourite reads and review books online. The site also encouraged users to buy books through Hive, the Gardners website that allows shoppers to buy books online and collect them from independent bookshops.