Blink and you'd have missed it. On Friday it was announced that Waterstone's have bought Foyles. Ten years ago this would have been a major news story, and featured in the first few pages of The Times. Today it didn't feature at all in the main newspaper and only managed a few columns on page 7 of the Business section. It shows how little the media cares about the books sector nowadays. The reason? Probably because most journalists haven't been in a bookshop for years and fulfill all their bookbuying needs from Amazon.
Waterstone's Buying Foyles Is All About Bricks & | Iain Dale
10 September 2018
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