tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27813826.post116401784080314175..comments2023-10-24T11:36:02.392+00:00Comments on Crockatt and Powell Booksellers - blog: A little perspectiveMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17940166741430047650noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27813826.post-1164033895594911192006-11-20T14:44:00.000+00:002006-11-20T14:44:00.000+00:00Don't know if Macmillan are worth 42p after they j...Don't know if Macmillan are worth 42p after they just agreed to pay a mr J Archer Esq. 12 million quid for a handful of books.<BR/> <BR/>But, speaking for Matthew, we will happily accept 213,000,000 for C&P Ltd. Just make the cheque out to Adam Powell and I'll make sure he gets his cut.<BR/><BR/>Actually, come to think of it, we're Archer's local bookshop for his London pied-a-terre. Maybe we should start cultivating some of that windfall...Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15793050007954678178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27813826.post-1164021537098296832006-11-20T11:18:00.000+00:002006-11-20T11:18:00.000+00:00Adam, there certainly is money in academic publish...Adam, there certainly is money in academic publishing, which was the mainstay of the Blackwell business. <BR/><BR/>As for Ottakar's, IMVHO it was brave of HMV to purchase them at any price : the fact that they have made such a horlicks of the integration, in the process turning Wottakar's into a supermarket discounter bodes badly for the chain book stores future<BR/><BR/>Wottakar's management need firing for entering in a discount war with WHS this month : just when the little W's management might have thought life couldn't get any worse, Amazon this morning sent a few serious blows across their bows. <BR/><BR/>It will be like Roman Gladiators : send on the lions I say !!!<BR/><BR/>Amazon have all the advantages of third-party sales revenue and can afford to predatory price : Waterstone have no revenue from other sources, except that which they can extract as co-op promo from gullible publishers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com