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New CEO James Daunt on what's next for Barnes & Noble

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

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The Importance of Booksellers

I don't think it's as important as libraries For example, in terms of promoting reading and Learning and culture And engagement In terms of that, they're combating populism I certainly think we are places in which not from necessarily so much an overt political standpoint But certainly one from a espousing community and liberal values. There is a reason why the Nazis piled up the books and burnt them And why in fact everybody of that sort Eventually started burning books. It's why writers are the first to get it in the neck When dictators take over Writing is very very powerful And it's a independent thought, isn't it?

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