BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 04:46:00
We say, "just remember you're a bookseller," when these things happen. and so far and i won't, you know, when you give autonomy to, in my case now a 1000—ish bookshops, you're going to have the odd thing go slightly wrong. but i think, given how many shops we have, we're remarkably good at what we do. you're a bookseller. you're not a publisher, and of course, you're not an author, but you're intimately involved with the whole book industry and the creativity that underpins it. when you look at the way publishers work today and the kinds of books they most invest in that they seem to promote...