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Old 03-17-2011, 07:37 AM   #22
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I don't know if it's better or worse, but the whole face of bookselling in the UK has radically changed since the demise of the NBA. It might be argued that cheaper books benefit the consumer, but a strong counter-argument is that the disappearance of thousands of independent bookshops, and their replacement by one or two dominant chains, is certainly not to the benefit of the book-buying public.
The chains are starting to disappear as well due to Amazon.
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