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Waterstones Boss Poised To Join The E-reader Battle

Posted at 3:56PM Sunday 20 May 2012

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Traditional bookselling, has more life left in it than meets the eye. In the UK, one bookseller who holds this view, James Daunt of Waterstones, is a retailer for whom the glass is distinctly half full.

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