Tom Chalmers

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In the UK Bookseller’s Futurebook section, Tom Chalmers asks: “Where to put the entrepreneur in publishing?” with particular emphasis on the more entrepreneurial aspects of self-publishing. In these digitally disrupted times, it seems, the entrepreneurial spirit is a panacea for the industry’s ills. “The need for urgent change is now, in the majority of places, [...]

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In a recent article in Futurebook, the digital offshoot of Britain’s The Bookseller, Tom Chalmers takes issue with the sale or return policy, calling on booksellers to, “scrap this ludicrous, self-defeating, damaging way of doing business.” Hold on: Jettisoning a pillar of the book trade: the return of unsold books to the publisher free of charge? [...]

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