Merchants of Culture. John B. Thompson

1994), ch. 4.

      27 ²⁷ Feather, A History of British Publishing, p. 94.

      28 ²⁸ Tim Waterstone had spent some time in New York when he was working for WH Smith in the late 1970s and was familiar with Barnes & Noble, but at that time Barnes & Noble was known primarily for its large discount store on Fifth Avenue and had not begun to roll out its book superstores. ‘I wasn’t looking at Barnes & Noble and Borders in the 1980s, not at all,’ he recalled. ‘I was just obsessed with what I was doing here, frankly.’