James Daunt

Has the ebook had its day? If you've skimmed a newspaper over the past month you could be forgiven for thinking just that. "The physical book market is making a comeback after years of decline," announced the Times, citing a rise in Christmas trading at Foyles. "Sales of books are eclipsing digital alternatives," said the Telegraph, with the journalist William Langley explaining how his teenage son had discarded his Kindle.

A Guardian leader said the apparent demise of ebooks was "one of the rare examples where a groundbreaking technology ends up being supplanted

Daunt Books, the highly regarded UK bookstore chain which began with a travel focus and has since branched out into general book selling – as well as producing the savior of Waterstones, James Daunt – has a rather attractive version of the Amazon Recommendations engine: In print, naturally, for print books. Themed printed flyers. The […]

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There’s been quite a bit of pickup of the recent Financial Times story on Waterstone’s, which supposedly supports a shift in UK reader appetite back towards printed books, where James Daunt, Waterstones CEO, said sales of which “disappeared to all intents and purposes”, according to James Daunt, chief executive. There are just a few flaws in […]

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The Bookseller has a brief report on a London roundtable in which some publishers and booksellers sounded a warning about library e-book lending. Waterstones m.d. James Daunt said that library e-lending could be disruptive to bricks-and-mortar booksellers. “If you can download a book for free and read it, why would you want to own it?” [...]

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