Comments on: Want a choice of guidebooks at the airport? Forget it http://www.travelblather.com/2009/06/travel-guidebooks-retailing-competition.html Banter between travel writers, travel PRs and travel social media people Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:59:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeremy Head http://www.travelblather.com/2009/06/travel-guidebooks-retailing-competition.html/comment-page-1#comment-378 Jeremy Head Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:48:37 +0000 http://www.travelblather.com/2009/06/want-a-choice-of-guidebooks-at-the-airport-forget-it.html#comment-378 WHSmith has clarified its position... the number of stores affected is not the 450 originally quoted by the Bookseller... but their argument for restricting customer choice still rings rather hollow in my opinion <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article6486610.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article6486610.ece</a> WHSmith has clarified its position... the number of stores affected is not the 450 originally quoted by the Bookseller... but their argument for restricting customer choice still rings rather hollow in my opinion
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article6486610.ece

]]> By: heather hapeta http://www.travelblather.com/2009/06/travel-guidebooks-retailing-competition.html/comment-page-1#comment-377 heather hapeta Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:40:16 +0000 http://www.travelblather.com/2009/06/want-a-choice-of-guidebooks-at-the-airport-forget-it.html#comment-377 this is appalling. as an author I get incensed when big stores decide they know what's best for customers: its always abouts whats best for the shop. I am a great believer and buyer in, independent stores, where the staff know and love books and if its not on the shelf offer to get it for you. However many are seduced by price and its the staff buyers in big chains who almost seem to be dictating what publishers will or won't commission as to its saleability ... in the big shops. come on readers - demand we have a range of requirements in all our reading and that is especially true in travel . each book provides a different voice for different travellers. this is appalling. as an author I get incensed when big stores decide they know what's best for customers: its always abouts whats best for the shop.

I am a great believer and buyer in, independent stores, where the staff know and love books and if its not on the shelf offer to get it for you. However many are seduced by price and its the staff buyers in big chains who almost seem to be dictating what publishers will or won't commission as to its saleability ... in the big shops.

come on readers - demand we have a range of requirements in all our reading and that is especially true in travel . each book provides a different voice for different travellers.

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