Didn't Waterstone's Used To Be One Of The Good Guys?
"So the argument goes: in going big, Waterstone's lost its soul. It gains credence if you consider what is happening in the US" -- the discount wars, that is. Nicholas Spice, publisher of the London Review of Books, says: "Waterstone's has really already done to British bookselling just the kind of things that we're seeing in the US." The Guardian (UK) 11/10/09

Posted November 10, 2009 07:11 AM