Oops! Wrong it seems Ottakar's IS now part of the Waterstones chain, or at least HMV.
DRAT!!
Roger Collett
Arrowhead Press
http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
Jules de Gaultier
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From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: Concern
> My previous email on this subject was sent in December and I don't know how it has appeared
> now!!! However since I sent it, the takeover was approved and seems now not to be going to
> take place. Hopefully James Heanage's proposed management buyout might be resurrected. We'll
> have to wait and see.
>
> Roger Collett
> Arrowhead Press
> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
> Jules de Gaultier
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:48 PM
> Subject: Concern
>
>
>> One of the last bastions of defence against the encroaching monolith that is Waterstones
>> seems to have given in to the beast. Small publishers are in the hands of the Monopolies
>> Commission.
>>
>> http://www.which.co.uk/news/consumerrights/05/dec/waterstones-oft.html
>>
>> Roger Collett
>> Arrowhead Press
>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>> Jules de Gaultier
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