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A bookseller’s duty

23 February 2017

3:00 PM

23 February 2017

3:00 PM

To my mind, a bookshop is like a library — the only difference is that you buy the books, you don’t borrow them. But both have a duty to provide books (space and budgets allowing) reflecting a wide range — as wide as possible — of interests, reading tastes, subjects and points of view.

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