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As a bookseller i worked in a variety of different shops in both the east anglia and london regions. I help recommend books to customers and complete orders for books to come into store by request. Oct 07, 2011 probably not, seeing as theyre a big bookstore chain. May 26, 2016 as waterstones prepares to stop selling ebooks, are we seeing physical books trumping digital.
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