Carole thanks for your views on the recent spat between MacMillan/Amazon. I think that you are being a bit hard on Amazon. What we are seeing is one of the skirmishes that is beginning around publishing and how we buy and read books. Technology is altering in unimaginable ways this landscape. In my view most of the big publishers until very recently have not woken up to the new challenges but now are beginning to scurry around in these new fields. I think developments can only be good for readers and my very limited experience of reading on a Kindle was surprisingly good but I like you have been indoctrinated into the paper book experience. I'm quite certain my grandchildren will for the most part read books on screen and I look forward to seeing what Apple come up with. I am also quite certain that good indpendents will face up to the challenges which are formidable................. I don't know of a first class book store round here. Perhaps we could come up with a list of fine bookstores. What I really miss is a huge academic library........ anybody any ideas? When I was teaching in Kent the Kent County Library was paradise but that was a long time ago and of course University of Plymouth is fine as well.
Thanks for opening this stream Carole.