32. Why did Waterstones shops retire PRH books to their relevant sections?

32. 为什么 Waterstones 将企鹅兰登书屋书籍退回到相关区域？

33. What message did the spokesman of Waterstones seem to convey?

33. Waterstones 的发言人似乎传达了什么信息？

C) Waterstones staff hesitate to promote big-name author's books.

C）Waterstones 的员工对推广大牌作者的书犹豫不决。

D) Waterstones branches suffer a severe reduction in revenue.

D）Waterstones 公司的收入严重减少。

Elliott also owns Waterstones, a British chain of bookstores that is thriving despite predictions that Amazon would kill it off.

Elliott Management还管理着水石书店（Waterstones）, 一家正在蓬勃发展的英国连锁书店, 尽管有预测称亚马逊会吞并这家公司。

Both of these books are published next week by Penguin Random House, a company currently involved in a stand-off with Waterstones.

这两本书都将于下周由企鹅兰登书屋（Penguin Random House，PRH）出版，而该公司目前正与书店 Waterstones 发生纠纷。

Can we start with our encounter in the coffee shop at Waterstones in Glasgow in 2014?

我们可以从 2014 年在格拉斯哥 Waterstones 咖啡店的相遇说起吗？

The problem began late last year, when Penguin Random House confirmed that it had introduced a credit limit with Waterstones " at a very significant level" .

这个问题始于去年年底，当时企鹅兰登书屋证实，它已经向 Waterstones 书店推出了“非常高的”信用额度限制。

Then in 2019, hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation acquired the chain and installed James Daunt who led British Retailer Waterstones and founded his own independent bookstore, Daunt Books, as CEO.

然后在 2019 年，对冲基金埃利奥特管理公司收购了这家连锁店，任命英国零售商 Waterstones 的领导詹姆斯·道特担任首席执行官。他创立了自己的独立书店道特图书。

Big-name PRH authors may suffer a bit, but it's those mid-list authors, who normally rely on Waterstones staff's passion for promoting books by lesser-known writers, who will be praying for an end to the dispute.

企鹅兰登书屋的知名作者可能会受到一些影响，但那些通常依靠 Waterstones 员工的热情来推广书的腰部作者，才会祈求这场纷争的结束。

The trade magazine The Bookseller reported that Waterstones branch managers were being told to remove PRH books from prominent areas such as tables, display spaces and windows, and were " quietly retiring them to their relevant sections."

行业杂志《书商》报道称，Waterstones 分店经理被告知要把公共书籍从桌子、展示空间和橱窗等显眼的地方移走，并 “悄悄地把它们退到相关区域”。

Emma Marshall, who works at British bookshop Waterstones, says " at the moment we're in the tidying up, getting rid of things trend… I think the trend right now is about slowing down in your life" .

在英国 Waterstones 书店工作的 Emma Marshall 说：“目前我们正在整理、摆脱趋势… … 我认为现在的趋势是让你的生活放慢脚步” 。

Daunt also used this localizing strategy to turn around British bookstore chain Waterstones, which reported a 42.91 million pound loss across 268 stores in 2012 compared to a 16.32 million pound profit across 278 stores six years later.

道特还利用这种本土化策略扭转了英国连锁书店 Waterstones 的颓势，2012 年，Waterstones 268 家门店亏损 4291 万英镑，而 6 年后，278 家门店盈利 1632 万英镑。