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At least this post isn’t about a bookstore/publisher closing—instead it’s about the absolute grossness of corporations:

On Sunday, a Bookseller story by Victoria Gallagher reported that ���Ĵ�ý�sources���Ĵ�ý� were saying ���Ĵ�ý�Penguin is believed to have signed an exclusive deal with W H Smith���Ĵ�ý� bookstores to be ���Ĵ�ý�the sole supplier of foreign travel guides in its airports, motorway, railway and hospital shops.���Ĵ�ý� The reported one-year contract would begin next week and mean that in the chain���Ĵ�ý�s 450 Travel stores only travel guides from Penguin���Ĵ�ý�s DK and Rough Guides lines would be available ���Ĵ�ý� nothing from Lonely Planet, Time Out, Berlitz, Frommer���Ĵ�ý�s, Fodor���Ĵ�ý�s, etc.

It���Ĵ�ý�s not as if the deal wasn���Ĵ�ý�t going to cost Penguin ���Ĵ�ý� Gallagher reports the company gave WHS a whopping 72% discount. Still, it���Ĵ�ý�s a devastating blow to the competition, and probably worth it as such to Penguin: WHS is the only bookstore at airports controlled by BAA, the company that controls the UK���Ĵ�ý�s busiest airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick, and Edinburgh. (from )

Thankfully which is at least, well, something. This sort of anti-choice, anti-reader activity is total bullshit and a scary sign of the times. . . .