A.
Londoners are great readers. They buy a vast number of newspapers and magazines and even of books-- especially paperbacks, which ale still relatively cheap in spite of the ever-increasing rises in the cost of printing. They still continue to buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and bound between hard covers.
B.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in bookselling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here the bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the famous one which boasts of being "the biggest book-Shop in the world" to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of books, but many of them specialise in second-hand books, in art books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the many subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes in books about ballet(芭蕾舞)!