Harry Potter and a day of small profit - The Herald
Rosemary Goring on the effect of the HP price-war on independent bookstores, in a piece which ends up being a meditation on indpendent smalltown bookshops in general:
On one of the few days in the publishing calendar when the endangered species of independent bookshops might have been given a terrific financial boost, they were instead reduced to masochistic price cutting in order to catch what retailers call "footfall".
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