Modern Times

Amazon is a huge and powerful behemoth that has crushed publishing in its fist, says India Knight in an article in The TimesOnline The bookshop strangler: it’s a scary whodunnit And she sings the praises of both Waterstone's and the small, dusty, independent bookshop. Buying books is the most wonderful treat and it should feel like one, she goes on to say. So it should!

And yet here we are, a small, independent publisher, without a presence either in the high street or the side street, selling books on the internet. And, again, here we are, citing a column in the internet version of a quality broadsheet newspaper rather than buying the newspaper itself. We're doing what Amazon does, only on a much smaller scale and nowhere near as cheaply. Life's a real trial, don't you think?