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sabredog · 03-13-2012, 07:27 AM

Conversely, not many people have time to go down to a bookshop and spend time turning pages, looking for a selection.

The dynamic is changing and certainly here in Australia, very quickly. Online purchasing take-up is growing exponentially, which is why the retail tycoons are bemoaning the fact they are not going to be able to keep ripping off an increasingly savvy consumer any more.

I have stated this before and now do so again. Locally, if I go into a Dymocks store, chances are the book will not be in stock and never will be as it is simply not on their catalogue. After the fiasco back in October last year when trying to buy books for my oldest and youngest daughters, I will NEVER buy in a bricks and mortar store again.

Rude uninformed staff with no knowledge of their area of business.

Businesses come and go and that includes models of business. Adaptation is essential to any form of evolution. The Authors Guild and their mates in the publishing industry have proved that clinging on to the old way must be at all cost. It is like they are all afraid of the future and refuse to come out into the light from those warm and safe recesses of the caves they are cowering in.

Agency pricing is simply another set of rose tinted glasses employed by the publishers so they can feel warm and fuzzy about protecting their outmoded system of distribution and loyalties. Problem is, those rose tinted glasses are heading the same way as Zaphod Beeblebrox's sunglasses....

I wonder if the owners of saddler's felt the same as they shrunk to a niche market, whilst that arrogant upstart Henry Ford introduced mass produced automobiles to the world.

"Them durned horseless carriages, just a fad I tell' ya!"

03-13-2012, 07:27 AM	#28
sabredog Geographically Restricted Posts: 2,629 Karma: 14933353 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Perth, Australia Device: Sony PRS-T3, Kindle Voyage, iPad Air2, Nexus7v2	Conversely, not many people have time to go down to a bookshop and spend time turning pages, looking for a selection. The dynamic is changing and certainly here in Australia, very quickly. Online purchasing take-up is growing exponentially, which is why the retail tycoons are bemoaning the fact they are not going to be able to keep ripping off an increasingly savvy consumer any more. I have stated this before and now do so again. Locally, if I go into a Dymocks store, chances are the book will not be in stock and never will be as it is simply not on their catalogue. After the fiasco back in October last year when trying to buy books for my oldest and youngest daughters, I will NEVER buy in a bricks and mortar store again. Rude uninformed staff with no knowledge of their area of business. Businesses come and go and that includes models of business. Adaptation is essential to any form of evolution. The Authors Guild and their mates in the publishing industry have proved that clinging on to the old way must be at all cost. It is like they are all afraid of the future and refuse to come out into the light from those warm and safe recesses of the caves they are cowering in. Agency pricing is simply another set of rose tinted glasses employed by the publishers so they can feel warm and fuzzy about protecting their outmoded system of distribution and loyalties. Problem is, those rose tinted glasses are heading the same way as Zaphod Beeblebrox's sunglasses.... I wonder if the owners of saddler's felt the same as they shrunk to a niche market, whilst that arrogant upstart Henry Ford introduced mass produced automobiles to the world. "Them durned horseless carriages, just a fad I tell' ya!" Last edited by sabredog; 03-13-2012 at 07:30 AM.