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Retail: how bookshops survived the Amazon onslaught

14 mins | Jun 17, 2019
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"There are limits to the online experience. In the world of books, it is as good as it can be." With e-commerce, e-books and snippet reading, the book market seemed all but lost to Amazon. However, as Frederick Studemann reveals in the Financial Times, booksellers are in fact thriving. So how did this industry put up a resistance to digital disruption?

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