Looks as though the HMV shareholders are still peering through the wool they have pulled across their eyes...

Why can't they see the duck is dead?

Never mind...At least we indies can relax for a while, safe in the knowledge that the golden W will remain as shite as ever and may still drag the O club down with them into a Wottakers sized mess of a company. That leaves the field clear for those of sound and independent mind to do what we always do and always will do - sell great books to great people!

It really isn't rocket science you know...

PS Bookseller to the stars I apologise for ANOTHER anti Windybums post but remember - I too used to work for the big W. I think it's tragic in life in general that so much fine talent and so many intelligent people find themselves under the greasy thumbs of the class known as MANAGEMENT. Where would we be without all those self-important tossers telling us what to do eh?

As Morrisey sang to anyone who was listening in Waterstones Trafalgar Square t'other day -

In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die ?

It's a good question with the usual depressingly economical answer...