The biggest reason bricks & mortar bookstores have to expect the continued backing of publishers is not because they are indispensable – 2020 destroyed that fantasy forever – but because they are the publishing industry’s biggest bulwark against Amazon totally dominating the western industry’s consumer interface. Yes, this is another redux story evolving at TNPS … Continue reading Thinking the unthinkable: The Bookseller’s Philip Jones finally acknowledges what TNPS has been saying for a year: high street bookshops “are facing an existential challenge”