Ottakar's will be missed, and they deserve better - and should expect better - than this piece by former Times and present TLS editor Peter Stothard:
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2006/05/nottakars_any_m.html
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2006/05/nottakars_any_m.html