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The Honesty Bookshop

How's this for business model:An outdoor locationAll books are £1 or lessHours of operation - 24/7 365 days a yearTotal staff - 0Security - noneMethod of payment - cash - deposited in lock boxes located throughout the shopWelcome to the The Honesty Bookshop one of the 30 or so bookshops that populate the book paradise known as Hay-on-Wye. It is part of Richard Booth's Bookshop which has, in addition to the Honesty Bookshop, two shops in Hay-on-Wye. And for those looking for a little Hay-on-Wye history, it was Richard Booth who opened the first bookshop there in 1961 and devised...

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