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Waterstone's Returns To Its Roots

Posted at 2:49PM Thursday 14 Jan 2010

Well, well, well. Book chain Waterstone's this morning fired its boss following dire Christmas sales figures and announced that it is going back to its roots as a "local" bookshop.

You could almost hear book publishers rejoice

James Hall in The Telegraph




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