http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/19/future-tense-for-booksellers/ Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada's magazine of book news and reviews Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/19/future-tense-for-booksellers/comment-page-1/#comment-86857 Anonymous Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:58:20 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2008/06/19/future-tense-for-booksellers/#comment-86857 Eavesdropping is certainly not the most reliable of journalistic techniques and the re-reporting of eavesdropping even less so. To say that Frans has a black sense of humour is like calling The Netherlands "not very mountainous". In the past, I wouldn't be surprised if he had linked the death of book selling to television, the trade paperback, dual pricing, the creation of ISBN, the popularity of the miniskirt, and the importation of tobacco by Sir Walter Raleigh. And yet he has managed to survive all of the above. Eavesdropping is certainly not the most reliable of journalistic techniques and the re-reporting of eavesdropping even less so. To say that Frans has a black sense of humour is like calling The Netherlands “not very mountainous”. In the past, I wouldn’t be surprised if he had linked the death of book selling to television, the trade paperback, dual pricing, the creation of ISBN, the popularity of the miniskirt, and the importation of tobacco by Sir Walter Raleigh. And yet he has managed to survive all of the above.

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