The average British book buyer has also been bought and sold by marketing, queuing in the middle of the night in fancy dress (and I mean the adults) to be part of the first panicked million or so to buy a children's book rushing to take part in the latest national which-book-is-best phone-in (the phone-in being TV's replacement for community). These are chainstore times, where space on shelves is rented by the foot by publishers to guarantee their latest bestsellers. Anyone watching the UK book-buying public from a remote place - from a different planet, say, or from 30 years in the past, or from some untouched island - would tell us how peculiar it looks.
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