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Waterstone's Has Forgotten What Bookselling Is About

Posted at 6:32AM Tuesday 07 Sep 2010

Whatever happened to Waterstone's? Like many bookshop lovers, and fans of Tim Waterstone's achievements in the 1980s, I have watched the decline of a great chain with dismay. How could it have all gone so wrong?

Robert McCrum in The Guardian

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