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Originally Posted by HarryT
The death of the NBA certainly put a LOT of small independent booksellers out of business in the UK. 20 years ago virtually every town had small independent bookshops. These days the big chains (Waterstones, etc) dominate.
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There was discussion about this on 'You and Yours' (BBC Radio4) yesterday - they agreed about NBA, and also pointed out that supermarkets had moved into discounted book sales too (e.g. Asda selling Potter for a pound).
The independents had to find niche markets to survive.