It sounds like Hay-on-Wye, the world’s mecca for secondhand bookshops, is tearing itself apart in a row over its festival, which someone labelled “Waterstones-on-Wye.”
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Hay-on-Wye turmoil
Monday, January 26th, 2009Secondhand bookshops to thrive
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Robert McCrum writes in The Guardian that 2009 is going to be a fine year for secondhand bookshops. Let’s hope so. In the article he talks up the Gloucester Road Bookshop, which sells with AbeBooks.