She has built up a chain of 180 bookshops across the country.
There are several good bookshops in town where I'm sure you could buy a world atlas.
They sold books, collected bills, arranged shipping, and inspected all the bookshops along their itineraries.
And if you should lose it, it was not the end of the world; you merely bought a new one in the local bookshop.
Since 1953 there had been an agreement between publishers and bookshops to maintain an agreed fixed price.
