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  2. List of bookstore chains - Wikipedia

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    Bookmans. Books-A-Million - 2nd & Charles. Borders Books and Music - closed all locations in 2011. Brentano's - closed all locations in 2011. Crown Books - closed all locations in 2001. Deseret Book - also operates Seagull Book. Encore Books - defunct 1999. Family Christian Stores - closed all locations in 2017.

  3. List of books banned by governments - Wikipedia

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    A display of formerly banned books at a US library. Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This ...

  4. Waterstones - Wikipedia

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    Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading as Waterstones (formerly Waterstone's ), is a British book retailer that operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and also other nearby countries. [ 5] As of February 2014, it employs around 3,500 staff in the UK and Europe. [ 5] An average-sized Waterstones shop sells a range of approximately ...

  5. Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The Booksellers Association of the UK and Ireland (BA) is a trade body founded to promote retail bookselling in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It operates the National Book Token scheme in the UK and sponsors the Whitbread Award [1] The BA represents 95% of British retail booksellers. [2] The BA operates the Batch payments system, an ...

  6. Category:Bookshops of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Waterstones. WHSmith. The Works (retailer) The Works Discount Bookstores. World of Books. Categories: Bookstores by country. Shops in the United Kingdom. Retail companies of the United Kingdom.

  7. History of bookselling - Wikipedia

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    History of bookselling. Japanese bookseller from the Jinrin kinmo zui (An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Humanity) from 1690. Bookshop in Much Wenlock, UK. The selling of books dates back to ancient times. The founding of libraries in c.300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became ...

  8. List of book-burning incidents - Wikipedia

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    8.13Siné's Massacre(during power struggle in "Penguin Books") 8.14Beatles burnings – Southern United States, 1966. 8.15Leftist books in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship. 8.16Books burned by at order of school board in Drake, North Dakota, USA. 8.17Book burning caused by Viet Cong in South Vietnam.

  9. List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom

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    John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%) Faber Independent Alliance £57.4m (3.3%) Faber & Faber, Atlantic Books, Canongate, Granta Books, Icon Books, Portobello Books, Profile Books (including Serpent's Tail), Short Books. A number of financially independent smaller publishers that have formed an alliance to share promotion and administration ...

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