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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 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. List of best-selling books - Wikipedia

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    Having sold more than 600 million copies worldwide, [13] Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling is the best-selling book series in history. The first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, has sold in excess of 120 million copies, [14] making it one of the best-selling books of all time.

  7. List of English-language book publishing companies - Wikipedia

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    Atlas Press. ATOM Books. Atria Publishing Group – a division of Simon & Schuster – a UK-based imprint of Little, Brown. Aunt Lute Books – feminist publisher (US) Austin Macauley Publishers. Avery Publishing – an imprint of the Penguin Group. Avon Publications – an imprint of HarperCollins (as of 2010. [update]

  8. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

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    Little Dunthorpe, England Stephen King: Misery: Little Hangleton, England J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Little Hangleton is a small village in northern England. The village was six miles away from the larger community of Great Hangleton and was about 200 miles away from Little Whinging. Little Tall Island, Maine Stephen King

  9. 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.