Keep buying your books at Tesco and soon the only books for sale will be those three.

Yes, so we end up back at Amazon. Which as far as I'm concerned is one of the biggest benefits of the internet revolution. I used to be a professional librarian and I haven't forgotten the misery of using BBIP (British Books In Print), which was a huge red hardback volume that came out every 6 months, listing every British book in print, with monthly updates in between. To find out whether a book was available you had to look up the latest volume plus all the updates, then check the publishers' catalogues in case it had gone out of print very recently, then order it from a bookseller, then wait till they told you whether they could get it or not. For forthcoming books you were dependent on The Bookseller, which you had to read every week in case you missed something, plus publishers' catalogues when they could be bothered sending them.

Now - you look it up on Amazon. If it's in print you order it, if not they will probably have it anyway via Amazon Marketplace, if not you check Abebooks. End of story. Brilliant. And one of the best things is that YOU look it up - BBIP used to be closely guarded by libraries and booksellers as one of the tools of their trade and it was not available to the public. Maybe I'm odd, but I far prefer looking things up myself to having to ask someone to do it for me.

And BTW there's no need to be snobbish about the likes of Dan Brown and Jeffrey Archer. I wish I could do what they can. I'd be a lot richer if I could. My attitude, having been a school librarian among other jobs in libraries, is that reading is better than not reading, and some people are only ever going to read the likes of Dan Brown or Danielle Steel or John Grisham. So what? They're reading continuous prose which is usually grammatical and properly-spelt at the very least, even if it's simple. If more people did that there might not be so many instances of confusion of their/there/they're, it's/its and you're/your (or should I say yuor). Dan Brown and Jeffrey Archer are complicated cf those easy readers they do for adults now (the ones that come in a cardboard display case, face out - usually a Dr Who story, a sportsman's bio, a couple of short stories by big-name authors like Val McDermid) - which shows that for some people it's an achievement to get through a full-length book. And good for them.

Supermarket CD/DVD/Books aren't as cheap as people make out and if you want any film other than Dirty Dancing (good or bad) you stuffed. Specialist stores do as many good books as they do bad but they are in stock for more than week. It's a shame Supermarkets feel they have muscle in on everyone else business with inferior versions.

The customer loses out in the end, no range of stock, no one to help you, no jobs that require specialist knowledge, more worker drones.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with those books (well, two of them at least), but I wouldn't want them to be the only literature available. Now try being a small publisher willing to take a gamble on some unknown woman author writing about a school for young wizards. If you're lucky Amazon will take a handful of your books and if you're really, really lucky they'll pay you enough to cover your costs. Maybe you won't be so willing to take the gamble, and her book will remain unpublished. And book ordering has improved a bit since the days of BBIP, Amazon or no.

Tesco criticised by parenting group for selling school uniform mini-skirt for girls as young as 9


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ung-9.html

this from a "newspaper" obsessed with Suri Cruise aged 4

Results for 'Suri Cruise' on the Mail website

You searched for 'Suri Cruise' - 351 results found.

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"Pander to paedophiles"? Does that mean the major stores ask for feedback from them on what kids should wear?

The thing that puzzles me is the fact that the skirt is 1ft long - whilst on an adult that could be considered 'short', on a nine year old, that will take up around 25% of their overall height. Hardly slutty nor revealing.

Particularly hypocritical given that the first people to feint at a flash of ankle are the ones who most loudly decry women who elect to wear a burkha when out in public.

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Soppy anti-British, pro-crime, anti-education, pro-immigration, anti-family nonentity

Tesco should stop stocking the Mail, they would soon change their tune.

We orederd online from Tesco (I know, I know). There was a free Daily Mail with it. I said to the delivery man that I didn't want it and he said 'don't blame you. Not that paper anyway'.

And that's my anecdote.

Sir Peter Ustinov.

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MY COMMENTS ARE FROM THE HORSES MOUTH AND ARE ALL FACTS

It seems OK for children to make these cheap clothes just not wear them.

Tesco to sell half-price Viagra over the counter



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z103w4b7xd


cue jokes!

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"Fanaticism is the only form of willpower to which the weak minded and irresolute can rise."

For some reason I can't fathom I feel inspired, at this point, to make sure all Mailwatchers are familiar with an acronym that is extremely useful online, not least because many BBC moderators don't know so it has been known to slip through on Have Your Say - GIRFUY. Get It Right F*cking Up Ye. Much seen on Scottish football boards. Pronounced as seen - Gurr-foo-ey.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... urch.html#

Church fails and building is sold to Tesco, who open a store in it. Cue Culture Christians and Tesco-haters who aren't going to go to church or give up using supermarkets themselves but want churches and 'nice little shops' all the same.

Yet as mentioned in the comments, the Mail don't seem to give a flying fuck about the one being used as a nightclub just up the road.

I think I hear the clip-clopping of a Dacre hobby-horse.

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Soppy anti-British, pro-crime, anti-education, pro-immigration, anti-family nonentity

Sainsbury's bought and demolished a local church a few years back. No-one made a fuss/wrote to the Mail about it...
It's all so bloody random - if you're the one the fecked-up fickle finger of Dacre lights on, you're pilloried.