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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you think this is good news, you aren’t paying much attention to bookstores or publishing news.

The hedge fund that took over Waterstones (UK bookstore chain) own B&N now. They’ve made HORRIBLE decisions this year about stocking books. Like they’ll only stock hardcover middle grade books (basically more expensive books by already-famous authors get the shelf space). There was a huge controversy because they weren’t giving prime space to the sequel to Ledgendborn, which was a wildly popular YA book. People were posting themselves literally hunting for the book in B&N stores.

If you care about books, you should care about how B&N is operating.

We have AMAZING indie bookstores in the DC metro. They will bend over backwards for your business and treat you like a valued member of their community if you frequent them. [/quote]

Most places don’t have any indies, or even a B&N.  I’m thrilled to support my B&N, and frankly I don’t care that a hedge fund owns it. Hedge funds own many things.

I like all the changes I’ve seen so far.  [/quote]

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