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Mon 2007-09-17 10:50
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[identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.comMon 2007-09-17 11:27
Why queue to withdraw your money when you could just go and spend it all on books? :-)
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[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.comMon 2007-09-17 12:20
Ah, good point. You might only be able to withdraw so much from cash machines, but if you can put n-ty bricks of gold on your card... :)
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[personal profile] gerald_duckMon 2007-09-17 13:34
OK, so Northern Rock has the Bank of England as a lender of last resort when customers suddenly withdraw all their money, but who's Galloway and Porter's supplier of last resort when customers suddenly buy all the books? The British Library?
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[identity profile] deerfold.livejournal.comMon 2007-09-17 14:13
I suspect they may be able to get more books fairly easily. So long as people paid for them.
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[personal profile] gerald_duckMon 2007-09-17 14:26
In the normal sense, yes.

But 250 million books at 24 hours' notice could still be a tall order.
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