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This BBC Story says British writer AS Byatt has hit out at what she sees as the deteriorating quality and range of literature on sale in the majority of UK book shops, and is saddened by the apparent triumph of marketing over choice on the book market. They say recent examples of heavily promoted titles could include the Harry Potter books.

\"Whereas once you would have had a very large choice of novels, such as every novel by Anita Brookner, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan, now you find a random one or two novels by those people,\" said Byatt.