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Smoke's Future Hangs In The Air

Posted at 9:25PM Wednesday 21 Jul 2010

The death of Borders UK appears to have been the last straw; whatever its occasional shortcomings as a bookshop, it was a vital stockist for many small magazines, and it was mourned on Comment is Free by Smoke's editor, Matt Haynes. But a shrinking network of independent bookshops – Haynes has previously dedicated a blogpost "to the memory of Index in Brixton, Words Worth in Camberwell, and Tlon in the Elephant & Castle shopping centre" – didn't help either.

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