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February 7, 2010February 27, 2010 ~ Eoin Purcell ~ 3 Comments

I’ve a column in The Sunday Times today. it features many of the ideas from this piece about bookstores. Here is a flavour and you can read the full piece here:

Whatever way you look at it, as a big book-buyer I should be a chain store’s best customer. Instead, like many avid readers, I’m what’s killing them.

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