In the UK, what saddens me is that in almost every town other than large connurbations (200,000 people upover), practically almost the only bookshops I see are publishers' remainders stores. Even more saddening is that a few years ago their stock would be books that shouldn't have been published in the first place. Now, there is a lot of almost current material in those stores by well known authors.
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