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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 00:34:00

Ideally, as booksellers, we sell good books. well, it doesn t matter if it s a good book or a bad book. well, no, but a good book goes onto a bookshelf. it s reused multiple times. and at its apogee, it s obviously in a public library and it s read multiple, multiple times and lent. but even our own personal libraries, our children read them, we lend them to friends, they pass through the generations. i read my grandfather s books. books really do endure and they decorate. and, sadly, we do still put curtains up over our windows. we do the things that make our homes warmer and nicer, and books are a very important part of doing that. since, i guess, 1990, when you first got into this in your twenties, you ve specialized in taking over bookshops which are failing for one reason or another, and turning them around, notjust individual shops, but then chains of shops and people watching and listening in america will be very aware of barnes and noble and the uk s waterstones. i mean, these ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 00:34:00

It s reused multiple times. and at its apogee, it s obviously in a public library and it s read multiple, multiple times and lent. but even our own personal libraries, our children read them, we lend them to friends, they pass through the generations. i read my grandfather s books. books really do endure and they decorate. and, sadly, we do still put curtains up over our windows. we do the things that make our homes warmer and nicer, and books are a very important part of doing that. since, i guess, 1990, when you first got into this in your twenties, you ve specialized in taking over bookshops which are failing for one reason or another, and turning them around, notjust individual shops, but then chains of shops and people watching and listening in america will be very aware of barnes and noble and the uk s waterstones. i mean, these are massive businesses, chains of bookstores which were, pretty much, in a state of collapse when you took them over. what is the secret to your turning ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 04:34:00

Perhaps there are other factors. i mean, for a start, you can download pretty much any book that s ever been written in a millisecond on a smart tablet. so, that s convenience. there s also a, sort of, environmental question. i mean, you make profits from selling books. books, ultimately, are made of carbon. and, frankly, they do look, in our efforts to get to a carbon zero world, a decarbonized world, they look like something we should get rid of. i think i would sort of argue, though, that they have an enduring and remarkably durable role to continue to play, if it s a good book. i mean, i think that, ideally, as booksellers, we sell good books. well, it doesn t matter if it s a good book or a bad book. well, no, but a good book goes onto a bookshelf. it s reused multiple times. and at its apogee, it s obviously in a public library and it s read multiple, multiple times and lent. but even our own personal libraries, our children read them, we lend them to friends, they pass through t ....

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