Publishers' HMV worries dismissed.
This article reports that book publishers' concerns over the acquisition of Ottakar's PLC by HMV Group PLC have been slapped down by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in Great Britain, which described them as "speculative in nature." The OFT this week released the full text of its decision to refer t...
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