Reading and Realism

From a Retired Publisher, in the Bookseller:

When I was a young rep in the mid 70's my sales manager told me that only 4% of the population of the UK ever went into a bookshop.

Each to their own devices

While there's much admiration for e-books among the upper echelons of the publishing fraternity, there's apparently less enthusiasm for the devices that are used to read them, Catherine Neilan observes in The Bookseller:

John Makinson, chairman and c.e.o. of Penguin, described the current models available as "very conservative devices", which had been "designed for old people".