A first step is bringing the High Street bookseller back to a reviving Oxford Street where vinyl specialist HMV is another returnee. The only survivors were the very best small independents, offering specialist or local services on the trendier High Street. It acquired a recovering firm, which had survived the Amazon onslaught and prospered under independent book specialist James Daunt. The opportunity for smartly presented High Street and shopping centre stores – offering add-ons such as greeting cards – was reopening. Daunt, a former City figure who started out with one superb bookstore on Marylebone High Street in central London, was elevated to a transatlantic baron of books.

Source: Daily Mail October 11, 2024 20:53 UTC