James Daunt is running between meetings and apologies for having to dash off for a minute before we can begin our chat. While ...

Against the odds, Waterstones has become a British high street success. How did one man do it? James Daunt is running between meetings and apologies for having to dash off for a minute before we ...

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Hachette Book Group CEO David Shelley and James Daunt CBE, CEO of Waterstones and Barnes & Noble, will be among the headliners delivering keynote speeches at the London Book Fair’s (LBF25 ...

Daunt also owns his eponymous independent UK book chain. He has run Waterstones since 2011, and has managed to see off the challenge posed by Amazon, which sells books directly to consumers and ...

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown continues our ongoing reporting on the book industry, part of our arts and culture series, Canvas. James Daunt, CEO, Barnes & Noble: It's recognizably ...

Daunt, who is the boss of both Barnes & Noble in the US and Waterstones in the UK, has steered the businesses through challenges like e-books and the rise of Amazon to make Waterstones the largest ...