Wow, you start losing a bit of interest in this blog thing - other distractions like the taxman have kept us busy lately - and then a little duststorm kicks off and it all becomes a bit lively again. Great!
I guess our W rants were getting a little stale but as two former employees (one of us at 2 branches) it was bound to be an issue at the forefront of our minds.
Not to mention the reason we started the shop in the first place. After many drunken pub discussions we just thought we could do a better job than anyone else. Why would we go through 18 months of anxiety, stress and sleepless nights if we didn't feel the urge to sound off now and again about our sense of destiny! I'm sure as the years roll by and as the debts get paid all will be sunlight and roses.
Anyway, even when we do try and be nice to the corporates (see my post below on Barnes and Noble) we get top US bookseller Andy Laties putting us right! Can't win, can ya?
So for other (more balanced?) blogs on what is really a very small world of publishing and bookselling check out these pages.
Our compadre in Crystal Palace
Grumpy Old Bookman
Our old boss at Macmillan (Pan Bookshop Old Boys)
Mr. Laties
The frankly terrifying (too many memories...)
...and many others you'll be able to peruse from these guys.
Who's got time for work when there's all this to get through every day.
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2008-06-24 @ 15:30