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‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Is There a World in Which the Harry Potter Books Get Pulled From the Shelf or Is It We're Going to Bring You Back to Reality?
I think we're extremely fortunate that I think the booksellers are not extreme people. We haven't got to a point where something at that extreme has been felt reasonable by anybody working for us. The only things that we do dictate centrally is to remove the really egregious and that I have no difficulty in doing if there's something utterly unacceptable then it shouldn't be in our stores. But again I think that has to be done through debate rather than anything that's dictated centrally. Do I think that all of these conversations are easy? You can find yourself with quite a difficult judgement as to which side of the line you fall.
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