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Is Penguin Trying To Rewrite History?

Posted at 8:17PM Monday 08 Mar 2010

The Penguin story is a great publishing story but, lest we forget, this latest campaign is less a celebration of a world-changing event and more a part of the ongoing battle for market share among the major publishers. It's about selling books, and sucking up shelf space that would otherwise be taken up by Penguin's competitors in the process.

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