Sat 11 Aug 2007

Goodbye, Angus & Roberston

Despite buying a lot of books online, I love my local bricks and mortar bookshops (there are at least threein my neighbourhood) and regularly visit large book stores when travelling. Being surrounded by all those books and able to browse before buying is great.

Angus & Robertson's stores, an Australian chain, are not a major influence in my book browsing, but they do have a store in the local shopping mall. However after reading this highway robbery attempt that they are apparently inflicting on publishers, I will be deliberately avoiding entering their stores. Lack of clues abound in their letter requesting payment from publishers.

Update: A parody follow-up from another bookshop chain is well worth a read. It was the Sydney Morning Herald where the original letters were published, too, but I linked to the Making Light version because Teresa Nielsen Hayden had done such a good job of annotating it.

Topics: books