[neilmarr]

You'd think with the brick-and-mortar book trade collapsing all around them, the Big Six would see the writing on the wall. But I guess it's tough to see anything with your head buried in the sand.

The future of also treebooks is online retail, and if you overlook the current publisher-generated sales figures (which take into account b&m sales, but not the fact that half the treebooks they claim as 'sales' to b&m are actually returned unsold within three months for a full refund), you see a whole new landscape. Heck, it's almost a year since Amazon -- the biggest book seller in history -- reported ebooks outselling hardback and paperback combined -- even of huge blockbuster new titles from brand-name authors.

Cheers. Neil

PS, MJ: Did you get your BB books through OK? Hope you enjoy my wee selection. N

And just to be fair: if anyone else in this thread's having trouble getting ebooks in Australia -- particularly books by Australian authors -- just take a look through the selection at the bookstore section of the BeWrite Books site (link below). Let me know of a couple that catch your eye and your preferred digital format and I'll be happy to send them as email attachments with our compliments. This applies also to anyone else in this, thread, regardless of location, over the next week or so who might want a couple of BB titles by authors of any nationality. ntmarrATbewrite.net (but use the @ sign)