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Originally Posted by boxcorner
"Shares in music and books retailer HMV Group have fallen 24% after revealing falling sales, weak profits and trouble meeting the terms of a bank loan."
"The firm - which also owns Waterstone's bookshops - plans to close 60 stores in the next 12 months in order to get costs under control."
BBC News 5 January 2011 HMV to close 60 stores as sales and shares slump
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If Waterstones sold ebooks overseas it might help them. But no, they had to bar sales, didn't they?