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Web warriors help balance the books

The internet and social networks are killing our reading habits, so the headlines say, but two heartwarming campaigns have highlighted how the internet has helped two ailing literary endeavours.

• Just before Christmas, online and high street book discount chain The Book People went into administration, threatening to take down coveted Norwich indie Galley Beggar Press with it. As publishers of Lucy Ellman’s avant-garde sleeper hit of 2019, , Galley Beggar had committed to an 8,000 print run to be sold

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