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Originally Posted by fjtorres
They're fronted by James Daunt, who fixed Waterstones by ditching payola and going hyperlocal: letting individual store managers select their stock and store layout according to local tastes.
He even tried renaming individual stores with different local names, to see if the Waterstones name might be a liability.
This could be good for B&M pbook buyers. 
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Be careful. You're in danger of making me feel optimistic.
I do think B&N moving into smaller stores in malls would be a good idea. Go back to the old B. Dalton model. I partly feel the mega bookstores were an ego move