![]() And one of the ways is by encouraging them to be centers of cultural and commercial activities." "One of the things I was talking about yesterday is the importance of community and how essential it is that publishers actively support bookshops. So I do actually follow quite carefully what happens to my little bookshop in Norfolk. But you also need to have the opportunity to drill down quite deeply. The danger of somebody doing the sort of job that I do is that you look at this big picture where you're publishing 15,000 books a year around the world, and you have a macro view. But I do actually find owning a bookshop quite interesting in understanding at a very local level what is going on. We have a bad weekend in Norfolk and I come into the office and say, it's terrible, we are all doomed-or the opposite. ![]() It is a relatively small bookshop, but people in the company always worry that I regard this bookshop as the bellwether of the entire global book economy. ![]() It's in the county of Norfolk in England. ![]()
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